perfunctory discharge of his functions. The insurgents would not explain the cause of their insurrection. Mr. B., the amateur, is enamored of art, amicable and even amiable to all, without an enemy, without an inimical thought. ... ... ... ... ... ... Obese : SELECT ETYMOLOGIES.-Antidote: Gr. antidot'os, a remedy; fr. an'ti, against, and did'õnai, to give. . . . Bane: A. S. ba'na, murderer.... Consolidate : L. consolida'tum, to make very solid; fr. con and solidus, solid; h., consols, solder, soldier, etc.. Crimson: F. cramoisi; fr. the Arabic ker'mes, the insect producing the color. ... Elephant: Gr. and L. ěl'èphas. Felon: L. L. fe'lo, a felon; the word is connected with fell, cruel. Gruel: F. gruau, oatmeal. . . . Happy, having good hap; fr. hap; F. happer, to snap up, to catch. . . . Incarcerate: fr. L. in, into, and car'cer, a prison. . Itinerant: L. L. itinera're, to make a journey; fr. L. i'ter, a journey.. Kerchief: old F. couvrechief; fr. F. couvrir, to cover, and chef (shef), the head. . . . Legerdemain : F. leger, light, and de main, of hand. . . . Liniment : L. linimen'tum; fr. l'no, I besmear. . . . Locum tenens, holding the place; L. locus, place, and těn'ens, holding... Magic: L. măg'icus; fr. mag'us, a magian, one of the Persian priests who worshiped light or fire as a divine emblem. . . . Mammon: Chaldaic Mamon, the god of riches. Mantua: F. manteau, a cloak. Membrane: L. membra'na.... Mistress: F. maitresse, fem. of maitre, master; L. magis'tra, a mistress. Monolith: Gr. mon'òs, alone, and lith'ŏs, a stone.... Mundane: L. munda'nus; fr. mun'dus, the world. Muse: L. Mu'sa; Gr. Mou'sa, one of the nine goddesses of poetry or song. . . . Naughty: fr. A. S. na-whit, no whit, naught. . . . Nepenthe: Gr. nēpěn'thes, a drug for removing grief; fr. nē, not, and pěn'thos, grief. L. o-be'sus, fat. . . . Objurgate: L. objurga'tum, to chide. Onus, burden; the first word of the L. phrase, o'nus proban'di, the burden of proving; h., ex-onerate, onerous. . . . Orotund: L. os, dris, the mouth, and tun'do, I beat; said of the utterance of letters or words with fullness and clearness.... Ostracize: Gr. Ŏstraki'zō; fr. Ŏstrakon, a shell; because banishment by the popular voice was by throwing shells, bearing the name of the banished party, into an urn.... Ovation : L. ova'tio, a lesser triumph. Oyster L. os'tre-a. . . . Page: L. pagi'na; fr. panʼgo, I fasten.... Pamphlet: a nasalized form of Span. papelete, a written slip of paper. . . . Parasol : F. parer, to ward off, and L. sol, sun. . . . Pegasus: in ancient fable a winged horse of the Muses. ... Pharos, an island in the Bay of Alexandria where King Ptolemy Philadelphus built a famous lighthouse. Porridge, a corruption of Eng. pottage; fr. pot. . . . Prestidigitation: fr. L. præ'sto, quickly, and dig'itus, finger. Prestige: F. prestige, a charm; fr. L. præstig'iæ, deceptions, illusions. . . . Proboscis : L.; fr. Gr. pro and bos'kō, I feed. . . . Profluvium, a flowing forth; L.; fr. pro and flu'o, I flow. . . . Prophylactic, defending from disease; Gr. prophulak'tikŏs; fr. pro, before, and phulas'sō, I preserve. . . . Quarantine: It. quarantina; fr. L. quadragin'ta, forty; because forty days used to be the term of detention for an infected ship. . . . Quid pro quo, what for what: L. . . . Refrigerate: L. refrigera'tum, to make cold; fr. ... ... ... ... ... re and fri'gus, cold; h., frigid, re-fresh.. Regret: F. regretter, to lament; Scot. greet, to cry. . . . Rendezvous: F. rendez vous, render yourselves, repair to a place. . Sic, thus; L.; sic is sometimes used in quoting from another author in order to call attention to the fact that the quotation is rightly given.. Sine die, without a day: L. . . . Sternutation: fr. L. ster'nuo, I sneeze. . . . Sublunary: fr. L. sub, under, lu'na, the moon. . . . Syndicate, a council of syndics; fr. Gr. sun'dikos, helping in a court of justice; fr. sun, together, and di'kē, justice. . Vermicelli, rolled paste: L. vermic'ulus, a little worm; fr. ver'mis, a worm; h., vermicular, vermifuge, etc. . . . Winter: Gothic vin'trus. EXERCISE IX. 1. HE inveighed vehemently against me, but I was not vexed at his invective. The centurion led a century of men into battle, and was famous for a century of years. She gets a high percentage on her money. This indelible ink contains nothing deleterious. His remuneration from that community is far from munificent, but he has no common immunities and communicates with all the world. 2. His preposterous appeal to posterity will never reach his audience. My halcyon days are over, and the guerdon of Fortuitously, the packet was not sent. We laughed well at the pantomime. I mean words my hopes is lost. The pageant faded. What do you mean by paronymous words? of like derivation. The lady's paraphernalia were all lost in the burning of the pavilion. 3. Why tantalize the child? What do you mean by tantalize? When you hold the peach to his lips, and then draw it away, you tantalize him. The word is from the Latin Tantalus, an ancient king who, having divulged the secrets of Jupiter, was punished in the lower world by having branches laden with fruit hung over his head, which always receded from his grasp; also, a rock threatened to crush him every moment, and he was placed up to the chin in water, yet could not drink. 4. Like a true Stoic, he is cold and passionless. sons by syllogisms. He rea What do you mean by a syllogism? It is a form of argument consisting of three terms or proposi tions, the first two of which are called the premises, and the third the conclusion, and are such that if the premises be allowed as true the conclusion must be true also. The following is a syllogism: 1. The world exhibits marks of design; 2. Whatever exhibits marks of design had an intelligent maker; 3. Therefore the world had an intelligent Maker. 5. They sang a Te Deum in all the churches. What do you mean by a Te Deum? An ancient Christian hymn in Latin, so called from the first words, "Te De'um lauda'mus," "Thee, God, we praise." We ransacked the house for a Run over the items of that bill. copy of the book. am busy making out my assets. I His manners are bestial. What is We saw a binary star. The cutler sharpened the bistoury. That young man has the caco-e'thes scriben'di. that? It is the bad habit of scribbling. O my 6. The calendar was printed on calendered paper. coevals, remnants of yourselves! takes the sting from grief. It is the equinoctial gale. Bishop H. is beloved by all shaft is a medieval relic. With a touch of his brush the limner illuminated my sketch. The limner or lumineur takes us back to a period when the illumination of manuscripts was a chief occupation of the painter. Such a euthanasy as hers Do not exacerbate his hate. Defecate the wine till it is clear. in his diocese. That porphyry 7. Prompt and peremptory in manner, he said he would redeem the land, but asked to be exempted from the tax. She domineers in her little domain over the domestics in her domicile. Why call the plant an esculent when it is not edible? The Latin word homo, man, is kindred with humus, the earth or ground, and the fact shows that human beings ought to be humble. 8. My adversary adverted in adverse terms to divers advertisements animadverting on the controversy growing out of an inadvertent conversation at the late anniversary. Such is her aversion to him that a divorce can be no longer averted. The new convert, though conversant with the facts, perverted them in trying to controvert the version I had given. The obverse side of a coin is that which has the face or head; the Seized with a vertigo, she fell and reverse is the other side. was lost in the vortex. 9. In trying to bisect my section of the insect, I found it hard work to dissect anything so small. A reptile is a re pent or creeping thing. This plant is not an annual nor a biennial, but a perennial. Carnage on that day seemed to keep carnival; the whole field was incarnadined like one great charnel-house. The trees are sparse, but shrubs are interspersed here and there. 10. I was describing an eruption of Vesuvius when he interrupted me quite abruptly, and a rupture of our friendship took place. The dial tells us it is past meridian. He seemed not only carnivorous, but omnivorous, voraciously devouring all before him. The vagrant uttered some vague, extravagant vagaries against the judge. In the disruption of earthly ties let us fix our thoughts on things incorruptible. 11. Heaven speed that millennial year when there shall be no more war! Fifty miles would I walk to hear the news. On our journey we kept a journal or diary of our diurnal doings. At the vendue few vendible things were offered. Decided in his tone, clear, concise and incisive in his style, the judge's decision seemed precisely right. I should call Brutus a tyrannicide, not a regicide. The homicide ended his life of crime by suicide. 12. The coroner (so called from acting for the crown) was late at the inquest. If I am not too inquisitive in the query, may I inquire what your perquisites are? May I request you to stop questioning me? Of course; is not this an exYour servant deserves well of us, but I ob quisite day? serve he is too conservative in his views. Reserve some SELECT ETYMOLOGIES.-Assets: L. ad, for, sat'is, enough; F. assez, enough; h., funds or property available for payment of debts. Bes Binary: fr. L. bi'ni, two by two; F. bin- ... ... ... ... aire, consisting of two, or two parts. ion-knife; fr. Pistoria, now Pistoja, in Tuscany, once famous for the manufacture. Cacoethes: fr. Gr. ka'kos, bad, ĕth'õs, custom; h., ethics. Calendar: fr. L. calen'dæ, the first day of the Roman month; fr. că'lo, I call; h., call. . . . Calender: fr. Gr. kulin’dròs, a cylinder; h., a press with heated rollers for finishing cloth, paper, etc. ... Coeval : L. con and æ'vum, age. . . . . Copy: L. co'pia, copious power, plenty; L. L. a pattern for writing. ... Cutler: fr. L. cul'ter, a knife; h., colter. . . . Defecate : L. defæca're, to cleanse from the dregs; fr. de and fæx, fæ'cis, dregs; h., fæcal.. Diocese: Gr. dioikē'sis, management of a household; fr. dï'a and oikos, a house: v. ECONOMY.... Equinox: fr. L. œ'quus, equal, and nox, night. ... Esculent: L. esculen'tus, fit for eating; fr. es'ca, food; fr. e'do, I eat; h., edible. Euthanasy: Gr. euthanaʼsia; fr. eu, well, and than'atos, death. Exacerbate: L. exac'erbo, exacerba'tum, to provoke; fr. ex and acer'bus, bitter. Fortuitous: L. fortu'itus, that happens by chance; fr. fors, chance. Guerdon: F.; fr. the Old High Ger. widerdon, a recompense. Halcyon: Gr. hal'kuon, the kingfisher; fr. hals, the sea, and ku'ō, I conceive; a bird fabled to incubate on the sea, and which so brought about calm weather. . . . Item: L. i'tem, also, in like manner; h., a separate article or added particular. . . . Lady: A. S. hlæfdige, a mistress, a lady. . . . Limner: fr. L. illu'mino, I illuminate.... Medieval: fr. L. med'ius, middle, and 'vum, age. . . . Mile: fr. L. mil'lia, pl. of mil'le, a thousand-i. e., mil'lia pas'suum, a thousand paces. Packet: related to L. pan'go, pac'tum, to fasten. . . . Pageant: Gr. and L. pèg'ma, wooden machinery in a theatre by which the players might be suddenly shown or removed. . . . Pantomime: fr. Gr. pan'ta, all, and mimos, a mimic. . . . Paraphernalia: Gr. paraphěr'na, goods in the wife's disposal besides her dower; fr. păr'a, beyond, and phèr'ně, a dowry. .. Paronymous: fr. par'a, beside, and Ŏn'oma, a name. . . . Pavilion: fr. L. papil'io, a butterfly, also a tent. Porphyry: fr. Gr. pòr'phura, purple.. Ransack: Swedish ransaka, to search for stolen goods. . . . Sketch F. esquisse, a rough draft. . . . Stoic, one of a sect of Gr. philosophers, so called fr. Gr. stð'a, a porch, because Zeno, their founder, taught there. Syllogism: Gr. sullogis'mòs; fr. sun, together, and lõgiz'ŏmai, I reckon. . . . Tantalize: fr. L. Tan'talus, an ancient king punished by Jupiter. ... ... ... ... ... ... ... EXERCISE X. 1. THE ingrate tried to ingratiate himself anew in her good graces, but he got his dismissal gratis, for she did not gratify him by one gracious word or by the smallest gratuity. I do not dispute the reputation of the book, but who is the putative author? Instead of letting the property augment appropriately, the proprietor authorized me to sell it at auction. Since she fractured her wrist her health is fragile and her |