With regard to the second purpose, that of showing the derivation or composition of words, it is plain, that etymology, and not pronunciation, must here govern the division; and that it should go no further than to separate the constituent parts of each word; as, ortho-graphy, theo-logy.

Several observations upon this fashionable substitution of the plural number for the singular, will be found in the fifth and sixth chapters of Etymology.

This distinction is noticed in the fifth chapter of Etymology, Obs.

See Etymology, Obs.

See the observations in the tenth chapter of Etymology. OBS.

These, in most instances, though they are not usually written as compounds, appear naturally to coalesce in their syntax, as was observed in the tenth chapter of Etymology, and to express a sort of compound relation between the other terms with which they are connected.

14.Of two prepositions coming together between the same terms of relation, and sometimes connected in the same construction, I have given several plain examples in this chapter, and in the tenth chapter of Etymology, a very great number, all from sources sufficiently respectable.

"Etymology treats of the classification of words; their various modifications and derivations.

"Accent seems to be regulated, in a great measure, by etymology.

There are, accordingly, figures of Orthography, figures of Etymology, figures of Syntax, and figures of Rhetoric.

SECTION II.FIGURES OF ETYMOLOGY.

A Figure of Etymology is an intentional deviation from the ordinary formation of a word.

The principal figures of Etymology are eight; namely, A-phoer'-e-sis, Pros'-the-sis, Syn'-co-pe, A-poc'-o-pe, Par-a-go'-ge, Di-oer'-e-sis, Syn-oer'-e-sis, and Tme'-sis.

7. What is a figure of etymology?

How many and what are the figures of etymology?

All English Participles are derived from English verbs, in the manner explained in Chapter 7th, under the general head of Etymology; and when foreign participles are introduced into our language, they are not participles with us, but belong to some other class of words, or part of speech.

The substance of his answer is, "The explanation and etymology of these words require a degree of knowledge in all the antient northern languages, and a skill in the application of that knowledge, which I am very far from assuming; and though I am almost persuaded by some of my own conjectures concerning them, I am not willing, by an apparently forced and far-fetched derivation, to justify your imputation of etymological legerdemain.

N. concerning ETYMOLOGY Etymol., of what treats when and how should be taught figures of, term defined; the principal do., named and defined Etymology and meaning of words, HARRIS on the usefulness of disquisitions into Ever, contrac., e'er; so in comp.

N. concerning ETYMOLOGY Etymol., of what treats when and how should be taught figures of, term defined; the principal do., named and defined Etymology and meaning of words, HARRIS on the usefulness of disquisitions into Ever, contrac., e'er; so in comp.

But Etymology is simply Word-history, and Word-history, like all other history, is a record of the facts which did happen, not a fabric of conjectures as to what may have happened.

In the later editions of Webster, these 'derivations' have been cleared out en masse, and the etymology placed in the hands of men abreast of the science of the time; and the last edition of Webster, the International, is perhaps the best of one-volume dictionaries.

"The intolerance of truth will one day proscribe the very name of temple 'fanum,' the etymology of fanaticism.

And, indeed, this large extension of the signification of that term is countenanced by its etymology.

Author of an excellent pamphlet, entitled, Two Dissertations concerning the Etymology and Scripture-meaning of the Hebrew Words Elohim and Berith.

The Hans, or Hanseatic League, is very ancient, some would derive the word from hand, because they of the society plight their faith by that action; others derive it from Hansa, which in the Gothic tongue is council; others would have it come from Hander see, which signifies near or upon the sea, and this passeth for the best etymology, because their towns are all seated so, or upon some navigable river near the sea.