| Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 420 trang
...synonimous ; a new term was not introduced, but because the former was thought inadequate : n/imes, therefore, have often many ideas, but few ideas Have many names. It was then necessary to use the proximate word, for the deficiency of single terms can very seldom be supplied... | |
| Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 450 trang
...exactly synonymous ; a new term was not introduced, but because the former was thought inadequate : names, therefore, have often many ideas, but few ideas have many names. It was then necessary to use the proximate word, for the deficiency of single terms can very seldom be supplied... | |
| Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1823 - 484 trang
...exactly synonimous ; a new term was not introduced, but because the former was thought inade-. quate : names, therefore, have often many ideas, but few ideas have many names. It was then necessary to use the proximate word, for the deficiency of single terms can very seldom be supplied... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 476 trang
...exactly synonymous ; a new term was not introduced, but because the former was thought inadequate : names, therefore, have often many ideas, but few ideas have many names. It was then necessary to use the proximate word, for the deficiency of single terms can very seldom be supplied... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1909 - 562 trang
...exactly ^--'Synonymous; a new term was not introduced, but because the former was thought inadequate: names, therefore, have often many ideas, but few ideas have many names. It was then necessary to use the proxi- 15 mate word, for the deficiency of single terms can very seldom be supplied... | |
| Tom Peete Cross, Clement Tyson Goode - 1927 - 1432 trang
...introduced, sometimes such as no other form of ex- but because the former was thought inpression can convey. e blood; To him the wit of Greece and Rome was known, And every author's merit but The original sense of words is often It was then necessary to use the proximate driven out of use by... | |
| 1909 - 498 trang
...exactly synonymous ; a new term was not introduced, but because the former was thought inadequate: names, therefore, have often many ideas, but few ideas have many names. It was then necessary to use the proximate word, for the deficiency of single terms can very seldom be supplied... | |
| W. F. Bolton - 1966 - 244 trang
...seldom exactly synonimous; a new term was not introduced, but because the former was thought inadequate: names, therefore, have often many ideas, but few ideas have many names. It was then necessary to use the proximate word, for the deficiency of single terms can very seldom be supplied... | |
| Greg Clingham - 2002 - 238 trang
...problem of defining simple words - "the idea signified by them has not more than one appellation . . . names, therefore, have often many ideas, but few ideas have many names" and this, in turn, suggested to him the inescapably diachronic, and metaphoric, nature of language:... | |
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