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📣📣 On the 268th anniversary of the publication of Johnson's Dictionary, we are excited to announce the addition of the 1773 edition of the dictionary to our site! Users can now filter their search by edition or look at search results in both editions to compare. 1/

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CONGRESS. n.s. [congressus, Latin.]
1. A meeting; a shock; a conflict.
2. An appointed meeting for settlement of affairs between different nations: as, the congress of Cambray.
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Hemicrany. n.s. [ἥμισυ, half, and ϰϱάνιον, the skull, or head.] A pain that affects only one part of the head at a time. Quincy.
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Nodous. adj. [nodosus, Latin.] Knotty; full of knots.

This is seldom affected with the gout, and when that becometh nodous, men continue not long after.
Brown’s V. Err.
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@JudeDeAngulo Johnson used quite a number of -zation endings: https://t.co/7vpH1ZUmjF
A few more words end in -sation, but some of these are -ation with a root that ends in -s (e.g., pulsation, sensation): https://t.co/KOKGF5tyxr

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Cicatrization. n.s. [from cicatrice.]
1. The act of healing the wound.
2. The state of being healed, or skinned over.
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From 1784 these two enormous chaps are the 5th edition of Samuel Johnson's Dictionary... folio sized and full of etymological joy!

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To REVISE. v.a. [revisus, Lat.] To review; to overlook.

Lintot will think your price too much;
Not, Sir, if you revise it, and retouch.
Pope.
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WHEN Dr Samuel John­son and his trav­el­ling com­pan­ion and bio­grapher, James Boswell, vis­ited the small island of Ulva in Octo­ber 1773, they found little of interest and only stayed one night. Now, ... the island is ser­i­ously en vogue... https://t.co/8bqTRlOVWj

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Mourne. n.s. [morne, French.] The round end of a staff; the part of a lance to which the steel part is fixed, or where it is taken off.
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[Paine's] pamphlet was part of a trans-Atlantic debate over the rights of America in which Samuel Johnson, a former pupil of my college in Oxford, had taken an opposing view the year before https://t.co/HudwU6Cn73

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Inexpugnable. adj. [inexpugnable, Fr. inexpugnabilis, Lat.] Impregnable; not to be taken by assault; not to be subdued.

Why should there be implanted in each sex such a vehement and inexpugnable appetite of copulation?
Ray on the Creation.
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Step inside 17 Gough Square this weekend and discover where Samuel Johnson compiled the first great Dictionary of the English Language. One of London's most remarkable historic houses.

Tuesday to Saturday 10am - 5pm
Sunday 12pm - 4pm
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Intermedial. adj. [inter and medius, Lat.] Intervening; lying between; intervenient.
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Ghastful. adj. [gast and fulle, Saxon.] Dreary; dismal; melancholy; fit for walking spirits.
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@Merzamatruh42 Are you thinking of this from a Catholic perspective? Johnson was a deeply committed Anglican (Boswell called him 'a steady Church of England man'). The beatification reference is metaphorical.

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Pronou'ncer. n.s. [from pronounce.] One who pronounces.

The pronouncer thereof shall be condemned in expences.
Ayliffe’s Parergon.
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@BuckSexton Brian Lamb:

"If you didn't become what you are, what would you be, what other profession?"

James Grant:

"I would be a professional scholar of Samuel Johnson. I am a Johnsonian. And I believe the best book in the language is Boswell's Life of Johnson."

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"Scholars remain divided on the authenticity of the document."
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To EDUCATE. v.a. [duco, Latin.] To breed; to bring up; to instruct youth.
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