flourished the prophet Elisha.”—­Ib., p. 148.  “In the days of Jorum, king of Israel, Elisha, the prophet flourished.”—­Ib., p. 133.  “Lodgable, a.  Capable of affording a temporary abode.”—­Webster’s Octavo Dict.—­“Win me into the easy hearted man.”—­Johnson’s Quarto Dict. “And then to end life, is the same as to dye.”—­Milnes’s Greek Gram., p. 176.  “Those usurping hectors who pretend to honour without religion, think the charge of a lie a blot not to be washed out but by blood.”—­SOUTH:  Joh.  Dict. “His gallies attending him, he pursues the unfortunate.”—­Nixon’s Parser, p. 91.  “This cannot fail to make us shyer of yielding our assent.”—­Campbell’s Rhet., p. 117.  “When he comes to the Italicised word, he should give it such a definition as its connection with the sentence may require.”—­Claggett’s Expositor, p. vii.  “Learn to distil from your lips all the honies of persuasion.”—­Adams’s Rhetoric, Vol. i, p. 31.  “To instill ideas of disgust and abhorrence against the Americans.”—­Ib., ii, 300.  “Where prejudice has not acquired an uncontroled ascendency.”—­Ib., i, 31.  “The uncontrolable propensity of his mind was undoubtedly to oratory.”—­Ib., i, 100.  “The Brutus is a practical commentary upon the dialogues and the orator.”—­Ib., i, 120.  “The oratorical partitions are a short elementary compendium.”—­Ib., i, 130.  “You shall find hundreds of persons able to produce a crowd of good ideas upon any subject, for one that can marshall them to the best advantage.”—­Ib., i, 169.  “In this lecture, you have the outline of all that the whole course will comprize.”—­Ib., i, 182.  “He would have been stopped by a hint from the bench, that he was traveling out of the record.”—­Ib., i, 289.  “To tell them that which should befal them in the last days.”—­Ib., ii, 308.  “Where all is present, there is nothing past to recal.”—­Ib., ii, 358.  “Whose due it is to drink the brimfull cup of God’s eternal vengeance.”—­Law and Grace, p. 36.

   “There, from the dead, centurions see him rise,
    See, but struck down with horrible surprize!”—­Savage.

    “With seed of woes my heart brimful is charged.”—­SIDNEY:  Joh.  Dict.

    “Our legions are brimful, our cause is ripe.”—­SHAKSPEARE:  ib.

PART II.

ETYMOLOGY.

ETYMOLOGY treats of the different parts of speech, with their classes and modifications.

The Parts of Speech are the several kinds, or principal classes, into which words are divided by grammarians.

Classes, under the parts of speech, are the particular sorts into which the several kinds of words are subdivided.

Modifications are inflections, or changes, in the terminations, forms, or senses, of some kinds of words.