Saturday, 29 January 2011
I found this beauty last weekend and it is just such a joy! The preface is dated July 1867 and proclaims that '"Johnson's Dictionary Modernized," it is hoped, will supply a great public want.'
Word of the day:
ABNEGATE,
v.a
. to deny, refuse, reject.
Hadn't heard that one before!
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