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Quote: such is the exuberance of signification which many words have obtained, that it is scarcely possible to collect all their senses

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dictionary for natural language
Topic:
meaning of words

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Such is the exuberance of signification which many words have obtained, that it was scarcely possible to collect all their senses; sometimes the meaning of derivatives must be sought in the mother term, and sometimes deficient explanations of the primitives may be supplied in the train of derivation.   Google-1   Google-2

Published before 1923


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