Ouse, ose, from the Lat. os-us;-the article reduplicated-and thus denoting a something more

than the single us, as ebrius, ebriosus-but custom makes little difference with us.

Anxious, Lat. Anxius,

Ambitious, Lat. Ambitiosus,

A man who feels, who acts with, is actuated by, anxiety

or ambition.

Eous, in Righteous, is a corruption of wise.

PART II.

Ble, Able, and ible, (Goth. Abal, strength, power, force, see Ble in the Dictionary.) The Lat. Bilis was, with few exceptions, used passively, and thus distinguished from iv and ic; as, Arable, that may be ploughed.

Audible, that may be heard.

Able, or ible, according to the Lat. word, from which we take ours.

Ile, Docile, that may be taught:-contracted from Docible.

Fragile, that may be broken.

But we have a large list of words in this ter. used actively, as,

Conducible, properly-that can or may be conduced, or conducted, is used indiscriminately with conducive, conducent, or conducing, that can or may, that does, conduce.

Dom, A. S. Dom: from dem-an, to deem, or judge,

King-dom, the territory, which a king dooms or judges, rules, or governs.*

Freedom, the doom, judgment, will of the free.

Full, Fear-ful,-full of the feeling of fear.

full of that which causes the feeling.

* Wallis. Dominium regis. See p. 139. Gill-Regnum ubi rex jus aut sententiam dicit, p. 32.

Thus a fearful man, may be either a timid man, who feels fear,-or a daring man, who

causes others to fear. The context must decide. But

A fear-ful thing, as a fearful storm; is a thing which, a storm which causes fear.
A hand full, a mouth full;-written handful, mouthful,-always refer to some other
thing; as full of gold, meat, &c.

Such words are formed as they are wanted, e. g. codify, codification; acidify, acidification; silicify, &c.

Hood, means raised; something raised; sc. to a certain rank, degree, state, or condition, quality or kind. It is also written head.

Ize,

Priest-hood, the state or rank of priest.

Maiden-hood, or head; the state or condition of a maiden.

Likeli-hood, the state or condition of being likely.

These term. are borrowed from the Gr. The verbal term. ize seems to have been Ism, intended to express the future effect, the continuance of an action commenced in

Thus, to civil-ize, to bring to a civil state (progressively.)

Particularize, to continue to state particulars.

Baptize, (emphatically ẞare) to dip ceremonially.

It seems also to denote-to continue a custom-to do as others usually do, as to Hellenize, to Atticise,—to do as the Greeks, or as the Athenians do; and thus it implies imitation, whence the ter.

Ist, is not unfrequently applied as a diminutive,-Grammaticist, is an imitator of the Grammarian.

Dogmatism, tnat which the dogmatist practises,-the habit, the manner, of a dogmatist. The writing of this ter. is not uniform: when from this Gr. origin, it should be written ize; to distinguish it from ise, in such words as advise, prise, &c. unless we were constantly to write 2, when we pronounce it.

Kin, a diminutive; man-kin, or mani-kin; of the kin or kind, of man: a little man.

Less, i. e. loose, or dismiss, as,

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Hope-less, Dismiss, hope, or rest, and, consequently, become destitute or devoid, in
Rest-less, S want, of hope or rest.

Our vocabulary is continually receiving additional compounds of this termination.

Let, a diminutive; from A. S. Lyt, little, as,

Ham-let,} A little or small Ham, or Ring.

Ring-let,

Our modern poets have made some additions to words of this kind.

Ling, denotes long-ing, or belonging, or pertaining: applied to progeny or offspring, (in proper names) as Edmund, Edmund-ling; and, thence, used as a diminutive.

Goose, gos-ling. Dear, dearling, or darling,

Ly, antiently written lich; corrupted from like;-suffixed to nouns forms adjectives as love, lovely:—to adjectives, forms adverbs, as stiff, stiffly.

Regi-men, any thing meant, or intended, or designed, as a rule or regulation.

Monu-ment, any thing meant, or intended, or designed, to keep in, put in, mind.
(mon-ere).

Testa-ment—Ali-ment Anything meant or intended to testify; to nourish, support, or
Testi-mony-Ali-mony S maintain.

Ness;-in A. S. Ness is a promontory; and ness, the ter. denotes the prominent, or distinguishing, or characteristic quality, or, generally, the quality, as,

Ship, D. Schap; Schape; from the A. S. verb Scipp-an, to shape, to form, or fashion, or figure. Thus,

Landskip, is Land-shape, the form or figure of the land, or country.

Friend-ship, the form or fashion; mode or manner; constituent qualities, state, con

dition, of a friend.

Some, is Same and as a ter. denotes the sameness or similarity, the coincidence or agreement;

Ward, may be joined to the name of any person, place, or thing, to or from which our view may be directed, as,

Home-ward, looking to, with a view to, home, (re-garding home.)

These terminations are the common, legitimate, and almost exhaustless source, to which our writers and speakers ever have resorted, and to which they will continue to resort, in the formation of subderivatives.

Corrigend:

In V. Ling. ter. dele line 13, from "In A. S." &c. to line 22, " portion," and read, "It always denotes long-ing or pertaining: and, from being applied to progeny or offspring, has the force of a diminutive, used to designate the added circumstances of pertaining or belonging, of being connected with or dependent upon, derived or deduced from." And dele in last line," Also," &c.