Encyclopaedia Perthensis; Or Universal Dictionary of the Arts, Sciences, Literature, &c. Intended to Supersede the Use of Other Books of Reference, Volumen1John Brown, 1816 |
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... sense of the A is chiefly to be collected , from the general fcope , and connection of the words . A fingle stands for Aulus , Auguf- tus , agca , aiunt , ante , ades , ædilis , aula , anima , amicus , & c . When double it denotes the ...
... sense of the A is chiefly to be collected , from the general fcope , and connection of the words . A fingle stands for Aulus , Auguf- tus , agca , aiunt , ante , ades , ædilis , aula , anima , amicus , & c . When double it denotes the ...
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... sense being derived from the Phoenician abak , duft . ABACUS , in architecture , as above defined by Dr Johnson , is faid to have had the fol- Lowing droll accidental origin . Vitruvius tells is that the abacus was originally intended ...
... sense being derived from the Phoenician abak , duft . ABACUS , in architecture , as above defined by Dr Johnson , is faid to have had the fol- Lowing droll accidental origin . Vitruvius tells is that the abacus was originally intended ...
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... senses , it makes part of the names of many towns in Britain . See the following articles . ABERAVON , a borough town of Glamorgan- fhire , governed by a port - reeve , feated on the mouth of the Avon , 19 miles NW . of Cow- bridge ...
... senses , it makes part of the names of many towns in Britain . See the following articles . ABERAVON , a borough town of Glamorgan- fhire , governed by a port - reeve , feated on the mouth of the Avon , 19 miles NW . of Cow- bridge ...
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... sense , under ftanding by it , any herb refembling the plants cu tivated for the ufe of the table , but not efculent The Greeks and Romans had a way of expreflin the boiling of pulfe , or herbs , by words fignify ing the wetting them ...
... sense , under ftanding by it , any herb refembling the plants cu tivated for the ufe of the table , but not efculent The Greeks and Romans had a way of expreflin the boiling of pulfe , or herbs , by words fignify ing the wetting them ...
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... sense . — Absence is of a fourfold kind of fpecies . The firft is a neceffary abfence , as in banished perfons ; this is entirely necellary . A fecond , neceflary and voluntary ; as , upon the account of the commonwealth , or in the ...
... sense . — Absence is of a fourfold kind of fpecies . The firft is a neceffary abfence , as in banished perfons ; this is entirely necellary . A fecond , neceflary and voluntary ; as , upon the account of the commonwealth , or in the ...
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