The national encyclopædia of business and social forms, embracing the laws of etiquette and good society (1879)
McCabe, James Dabney, 1842-1883. [from old catalog] · Philadelphia, Chicago [etc.] The National publishing co · leaf 188
pose a substantive (or noun) which, eitherbecause it does not fully express our meaning, or for some other reason, we wishto remove, but can find no other to supply its place. But the object may beeasily accomplished by means of a verb, adverb, or other part of speech, thesubstitution of which… … The English language consists of about thirty-eight thousand words. Thisincludes, of course, not only radical words, but all derivatives; except the pre-terits and participles of verbs; to which must be added some few terms, which,though set down in the dictionaries, are either obsolete or have…
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