Word Meaning In The Preface To A Dictionary Of The English Language

Which statements describe Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language? Check all that apply.

Read the sentence from Samuel Johnson's preface to A Dictionary of the English Language. I have studiously endeavoured to collect examples and authorities from the writers before the restoration, whose works I regard as the wells of English undefiled, as the pure sources of genuine diction. Which words in the sentence help readers determine the meaning of the word undefiled?

Read the excerpt from Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language. Mádness. n.s. [from mad.] Distraction; loss of understanding; perturbation of the faculties. Why, woman, your husband is in his old tunes again: he so rails against all married mankind, so curses all Eve's daughters, and so buffets himself on the forehead, that any madness I ever yet beheld seemed but tameness and civility to this distemper. Shakesp. Merry Wives of Windsor. There are degrees of madness as of folly, the disorderly jumbling ideas together, in some more, some less. Locke. How does this dictionary entry differ from those of earlier dictionaries?

At the time of its publication, A Dictionary of the English Language was unique because of its ________.

Read the excerpt from Samuel Johnson's preface to A Dictionary of the English Language. But to COLLECT the WORDS of our language was a task of greater difficulty: the deficiency of dictionaries was immediately apparent; and when they were exhausted, what was yet wanting must be sought by fortuitous and unguided excursions into books, and gleaned as industry should find, or chance should offer it, in the boundless chaos of a living speech. My search, however, has been either skilful or lucky; for I have much augmented the vocabulary. The excerpt claims that Johnson's work is significant because he

Read the excerpts from Samuel Johnson's preface to A Dictionary of the English Language. PROGRESS Which statement best describes the use of the underlined word in the excerpts?

Read the excerpts from Samuel Johnson's preface to A Dictionary of the English Language. In both excerpts, the word "structure" refers to the

Read the excerpts from Samuel Johnson's preface to A Dictionary of the English Language. LITERATURE Which statement best describes Johnson's treatment of the underlined word?

Which words have positive connotations? Check all that apply.

Which word has a negative connotation?