Tag: A Dictionary of the English Language

• Fragmentary, No. 4

  [I]t must be remembered, that while our language is yet living, and variable by the caprice of every tongue that speaks it, these words are hourly shifting their relations, and can no more be ascertained in a dictionary, than a grove, in the agitation of a storm, can be accurately delineated from its picture in…

  • R L • powell

  March 3, 2014

  Fragments, Words

  A Dictionary of the English Language, descriptive etymology, etymology, mutation, Reading, Samuel Johnson, words