SCRIPT, MANUSCRIPT, RESCRIPT, PRESCRIPT, EXSCRIPT, TRANSCRIPT. CONSCRIPT, POSTSCRIPT, PROSCRIPT, NONDESCRIPT. USE, MISUSE, DISUSE, ABUSE. COURSE, DISCOURSE, CONCOURSE, RECOURSE, INTER COURSE. CONCEIT, DECEIT, RECEIPT, PRECEPT. FINITE, INFINITE, DEFINITE, FINE. FLUX, AFFLUX, INFLUX, CONFLUX, SUPERFLUX, RE FLUX. SUBJECT, OBJECT, ABJECT, PROJECT, TRAJECT. DEGREE, GRADUATE, INGRESS, REGRESS, EGRESS, PRO GRESS. LEGATE, DELEGATE, LEGACY. INSTINCT, DISTINCT, EXTINCT. ADVOCATE. VISIT. CONVICT. ABSTRUSE. INTRIGUE, INTRICATE. TRANSIT, EXIT, CIRCUIT, ISSUE. (Fr. Issir. Ital. Escire. Lat. Exire.) ROAST. TOAST. STATUTE, INSTITUTE, DESTITUTE, PROSTITUTE, SUBSTI TUTE. TINT, TAINT. TEXT, CONTEXT, FRETEXT. TRITE, CONTRITE. TACT, CONTACT. *"Do you see this sonnet, this loving SCRIPT?" B. and Fletcher, A Wife for a Moneth. TACIT. ILLICIT. SENSE, NONSENSE, ASSENT, DISSENT, CONSEnt. ASSIZE, ASSIZES. EXCISE, CONCISE, PRECISE. Repute, dispute. PRESS, IMPRESS, EXPRESS. ESTEEM. PRIVATE, PRIVY. IMPORT, EXPORT, REPORT, TRANSPORT, SUPPORT. POLITE. APPLAUSE. EXPENCE, RECOMPENCE. PLEA. RESIDUE. REMNANT. PACT, COMPACT, PEACE. APPETITE. REPAST. IMMENSE. QUADRANT. JUBILEE. FOSSE. CONFLICT. CREDIT, CREDENCE, MISCREANT. * ["Surely this charge which I put upon them, I know to bee so reasonable, as that it will not much be felt; for the Port townes that have benefit of shipping may CUT it easily off their trading, and Inland townes of their corne and cattle; as wee see all the townes of the Low-Countryes doe CUT upon themselves an EXCISE of all things towards the maintenance of the warre that is made in their behalfe."-Spenser's View of the State of Ireland, Todd's edit. 1805. pag. 472.] DEBATE, COMBAT. EXACT. All the French participles in EE; as MORTGAGEE, ASSIGNEE, COMMITTEE, &c. And, besides these which I have thus taken at random, a great multitude of others; which if I had sworn to try your patience to the utmost, I would go on to enumerate. 7 ΕΠΕΑ ΠΤΕΡΟΕΝΤΑ, &c. IT CHAPTER III. THE SAME SUBJECT CONTINUED. H. It gives me pleasure that you have so far noticed this, in the words which we have adopted from the Greek, Latin, Italian and French: for you will be inclined the more readily to concur with me, that the same thing is equally observable in those words which are original in our own language. Thus BRAND-in all its uses, whether Fire-brand, or a brand of infamy (i. e. Stigma, itself a participle of Σri(w) or brand-new, (i. e. newly burned,) is merely the past participle Bren-ed, Bren'd*, of the verb To Bren; which we now write To Burn. Sir T. More wrote the word indifferently Bren and Burn." At St. Waleries here in Picardy there is a faire abbey, where saint Walery was monke. And upon a furlonge of, or two, up in a wood is there a chapel, in which the saint is specially sought unto for the Stone; not only in those partyes, but also out of England. Now was there a yonge gentilman which had maried a marchantes * ["And blow the fire which them to ashes BRENT." Faerie Queene, booke 1. cant. 9. st. 10.] |