Practical economy; or, the application of modern discoveries to the purposes of domestic life.

Date:
1822
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    THE FOLLOWING WORKS ARE BY THE SAME AUTHOR. A SEQUEL TO Cijc gjtuircnt’ss mannai. Being an Etymological and Explanatory Vocabulary of Words derived from tbe Latin. EXTRACTS FROM THE WORK. PART I. Abdication. See An. The act whereby a person in ollice re- nounces and gives up the same. In 1688, James II. abdicated, the throne of England. Francis II. last Emperor of Germany and first of Austria, abdicated the German Empire ou the 6th of August, 1806. Cardinal, from cardo, a hinge. In a general sense, an appellation given to things on account of their pre- eminence ; as being the points on which all others are supposed to hinge. Thus, “ Justice, Prudence, Temperance, and Fortitude,” are called the cardinal virtues, as be- ing the bases of all the rest. The East, West, North, and South points of the compass are termed cardinal points, as being the prin- PART Abdicate, abdico, (see Dico,) I lay down an office. [Some derive tbe Latin word dico, from the Greek dike, a right; thus abdico may sig- nify, I go from my right.] Abduce, ubduco, (see Duco,) I lead from, or draw away. Aberration, aberro, (see Erko,) I wander from. Ad denotes the action of adding, which is the contrary to An ; and it may be considered to be equal cipal. Cardinal numbers are the numbers one, two, three, &c. in opposition to the ordinal numbers. —Cardinal, one of the ecclesias- tical princes in the Romish church by whom the pope is elect- ed out of their own number. Classic, or classical, an epithet chief- ly applied to authors read in the classes at school. This term seems to owe its origin to Tullius Ser- vius, who, in order to make an es- timate of every person’s estate, divided the Roman people into six hands, which he called classes. Tbe persons of the first class, were, by way of eminence, called classici, (classics,) hence, authors of the first rank came to he called clas- sics. II. to the English words to, or accord- ing to ; along, or along with, to- wards, near upon. Observe, that when ad is united to words which begin with c, /, g, l, n, p, r, s, t, the d is changed into those letters : thus,accede instead of adeede ; af- finity for adfinity ; aggression for udgression ; alliteration for adlite- ralion ; annex, for adnex ; appeal for adpeal; arrogate for adrogate ; ascribe for adscribo; attend for ad- tend.