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Excerpt from Proposal for the Publication of a New English Dictionary
II. Collectors are further requested to transcribe all passages falling under one or other of the heads following e. Passages which give an account of, or implicitly serve to mark, the first introduction of a word into the language, or first use of it in an entirely new sense. Passages which consciously discuss or unconsciously reveal the etymology of a word, or the rationale of a name. Passages which contain happy definitions or explanations. 0. Passages which serve to distinguish any word from the synonyms with which it is likely to be confounded, either by felicitous Opposition or by avowed discrimination; and which assign to each the province which is properly its own. C. Passages illustrating the earlier uses which words have now left behind them, and the successive modifications of meaning through which they have passed. [see Examples, p.
Fornication is no mortal sin because there is no text of Scripture that saith so. N0 is? What means that then of Paul, Col. Iii. 5?
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