An accurate new spelling dictionary, and expositor of the English language. Containing a much larger collection of modern words than any book of the kind and price extant: and shewing how the same are to be written correctly, and pronounced properly; with the different meanings or significations of each word. To which is added, an entire new dictionary of all the Heathen Gods and Goddesses: and also of the illustrious heroes treated of by Homer, Virgil, Ovid, and other antient poets: with a summary account of their origin, descent, expolits, &c. To the whole is prefixed, a compendious, practical grammar of the English language. By A. Fisher, author of the practical new English grammar, with exercises of bad English: the new English tutor, calculated for the new method of teaching, &c.

  • Fisher, A. (Anne), 1719?-1778.
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M.DCC.LXXIII. [1773]
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Publication/Creation

London : Printed for the author, and sold by Hawes, Clarke, and Collins, and G. Robinson, in Pater-noster Row; E. Stevens, in Stationers' Court; and T. Slack, in Newcastle, M.DCC.LXXIII. [1773]

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[2],v,[2],vi-xvi,[364]p. ; 120.

Edition

The second edition, much improved.

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ESTC T217282

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