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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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673 words match “LANGUAGE”

ARTICULATE v. 2 definitions

To utter articulate sounds; to utter the elementary sounds of a language; to enunciate; to speak distinctly.

ARTICULATION n.

The utterance of the elementary sounds of a language by the appropriate movements of the organs, as in pronunciation; as, a distinct articulation.

ARYAN n. 2 definitions

The language of the original Aryans. [Written also Arian.]

To make Aryan (a language, or in language). K. Johnston.

ceeded in associating his name inseparably with some names which will last an long as our language. Macaulay.

ining to Assyria, or to its inhabitants. -- n. A native or an inhabitant of Assyria; the language of Assyria.

The science or study of the antiquities, language, etc., of ancient Assyria.

f the Renaissance. -- Attic faith, inviolable faith. -- Attic purity, special purity of language. -- Attic salt, Attic wit, a poignant, delicate wit, peculiar to the Athenians. -- Attic story. See Attic, n. -- Attic style, a style pure and elegant.

The style and idiom of the Greek language, used by the Athenians; a concise and elegant expression.

To conform or make conformable to the language, customs, etc., of Attica.

x, about September 23, and ends at the winter solstice, about December 23; but in popular language, autumn, in America, comprises September, October, and November.

AVESTAN a. 2 definitions

Of or pertaining to the Avesta or the language of the Avesta. - -n.

BABEL n. 2 definitions

The city and tower in the land of Shinar, where the confusion of languages took place. Therefore is the name of it called Babel. Gen. xi. 9.

An offense against purity of style or language; any form of speech contrary to the pure idioms of a particular language. See Solecism. The Greeks were the first that branded a foreign term in any of their writers with the odious name of barbarism. G. Campbell.

Contrary to the pure idioms of a language. A barbarous expression G. Campbell.

BASQUE a. 2 definitions

Pertaining to Biscay, its people, or their language.

Pertaining to the country, people, or language of Biscay; Basque [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Obscenity; filthy, unchaste language. "The pert style of the pit bawdry." Steele.

BENGALEE; BENGALI n.

The language spoken in Bengal.

hara, and who still occupy a large part of that region; -- called also Kabyles. Also, the language spoken by this people.