Thus, Henry the VIII. says to a vassal or tenant,
"As you are an accomplished _villain_, I order that you receive L700
out of the public treasury." The word _villain_, then, has given up
its original idea, and become the representative of a new one, the
word _tenant_ having supplanted it. To prove that the meaning of
words _changes_, a thousand examples could be adduced; but with the
intelligent reader, proof is unnecessary.
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QUESTIONS ON THE PHILOSOPHICAL NOTES.
How are adnouns divided?--What constitutes the true character of an
adjective?--What are the signification and denotement of the
terminations, _en, ed_, and _ig?_--What do _left_ and _own_
signify?--Name the three ways in which restrictives are applied.--How
was numeration originally performed?--What is said of _twain, twenty,
score_, and the ordinal numbers?--What is said of the changes produced
in the meaning of words, by the principle of association?
EXERCISES IN FALSE SYNTAX. NOTE 9, under RULE 18. Double _Comparatives_
and _Superlatives_ should be avoided; such as, _worser, lesser, more_
deeper, _more_ wickeder, &c.
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