f the New Testament_, p. 59.

{148} Thus Fuller (_Pisgah Sight of Palestine_, vol. ii. p. 190): "Sure
I am this city [the New Jerusalem] as presented by the prophet,
was fairer, finer, _slicker_, smoother, more exact, than any
fabric the earth afforded".

{149} [In the United States 'plunder' is used for personal effects,
baggage and luggage (Webster). This is not noticed in the E.D.D.]

{150} [But we have acquired, in some quarters, the abomination 'an
invite'.]

{151} How many words modern French has lost which are most vigorous and
admirable, the absence of which can only now be supplied by a
circumlocution or by some less excellent word--'Oseur',
'affranchisseur' (Amyot), 'mepriseur', 'murmurateur',
'blandisseur' (Bossuet), 'abuseur' (Rabelais), 'desabusement',
'rancoeur', are all obsolete at the present. So 'desaimer', to
cease to love ('disamare' in Italian), 'guirlander', 'steriliser',
'blandissant', 'ordonnement' (Montaigne), with innumerable others.

{152} [It has now attained a fair currency.]

{153} ['Gainly' is still used by nineteenth century writers, 1855-86;
see N.E.D.]

{154} ['Dehort' has been used in modern times by Southey (_Letters_,
1825, iii, 462), and Cheyne (_Isaiah, introd._ 1882, xx.)--N.E.D.]

{155} [Tennyson has endeavoured to resuscitate the word--"_Rathe_ she
rose"--_Lancelot and Elaine_--but with no great success.]

{156} For other passages in which 'rathest' occurs, see the _State
Papers_, vol. ii. pp. 92, 170.

{157} ['Buxom' for old English _buc-sum_ or _buch-sum_, i.e. 'bow-some',
yielding, compliant, obedient. "Sara was _buxom_ to Abraham", 1
Pet. iii, 6 (xiv. Cent. Version, ed. Pawes, p. 216).]

{158} ['Lissome' for _lithe-some_, like Wessex _blissom_ for
_blithe-some_. Tennyson has "as _lissome_ as a hazel wand"--_The
Brook_, l. 70.]

{159} Jamieson's _Dictionary_ gives a large number of words with this
termination which I should suppose were always peculiar to
Scotland, as 'bangsome', i.e. quarrelsome, 'freaksome', 'drysome',
'grousome' (the German 'grausam') [Now in common use as
'gruesome'.]

{160} [A list of some of these reduplicated words was given by Dr. Booth
in his "Analytical Dictionary of the English Language", 1835; but
a full collection of nearly six hundred was published by Mr. H. B.
Wheatley i