A treatise on the cause and cure of hesitation of speech or stammering / Henry McCormac.

  • M'Cormac, Henry, 1800-1886.
Date:
1828
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Credit: A treatise on the cause and cure of hesitation of speech or stammering / Henry McCormac. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    OF AN . ETYMOLOGICAL DICTIONARY OF WORDS DERIVED PROM THE LATIN: BEING A SEQUEL TO THE STUDENTS MANUAL. If the custom prevailed with all instructors (which assuredly ought to be the case) of tracing the English to the Latin language, the utility of this last would be more generally and permanently felt, nor would it be so readily forgotten in manhood, after the long and fruitless pains that have been taken to acquire it in youth.— Jones. In the First Part, a list of Latin words is given, to which is subjoined all the English words that are derived from them. Thus one leads to the knowledge of many, as a clus- ter of leaves or flowers is acquired by only seizing the stem on which they stand. The Second Part presents an alphabetical list of English words, derived from the Latin, with their etymology and definition; and points out the value of the Prepositions which enter into combination with other words; in order to do this with more effect, it was thought advisable to contrast the words so compounded with such as are synonymous. PART L CiEDO, / cut, beat, kill— C^ESUS, cut. [ Cado is changed into Cido, and Casus into Cisus, when compounded.] Con-cise, con-eision, in-cision, pre-cise. Fratri-cide, {fratris, of a brother. Homi-cide, (hominis, of a man.) Infanti-cide, infantis, of an infant.) Patri-cide, (pater, father.) Matri-cide, (mater, mother.) Pari-cide, (parens, a parent.) Regi-cide, (rex, regis, a king.) Sui-cide, (sui, of himself, or, of herself.) GRADUS, a step.—GRADI- OR, / move by steps, I walk. — GRESSUS, moved by steps. [Gradior is changed into Gredior, when compounded.] Gradation, gradual, graduate, retro- grade. Ag-gression, con-gress, de-grade, di- gress, e-gress, in-gress, pro-gress, re- gress, trans-gress. PART II. Ag-gression, aggredior, I step to ; I ad- vance against another, as foe against foe. Thus, one who gives another cause for quarrel is said to be the ag- gressor. Con-gress, congredior, I step with an- other. Congress, is used to denote an appointed meeting for the settle- ment of affairs between different na- tions, as, the congress of Vienna; or between the different parts of the same nation, as in North America. De-grade, signifies, literally, to bring a step down ; and, figuratively, to lower in the estimation of others. Degrade respects the external station or rank, disgrace refers to the moral estima- tion or character. A man may be said to depreciate human nature, who does not repre- sent it as capable of its true elevation; he degrades it who sinks it below th» scale of rationality. He who is most elevated in his own esteem may be the most humbled, he who is most elevated in the esteem of others may be most degraded. Di-gress, digredior, I step aside. Both digress and deviate express going out of the ordinary course ; but digress is used only in particular, and deviate in general cases : we digress only in