36 BROOMALL : 



Ad'dress (n.), ad'ept (n.), ad'nlt (n.), al'loy (n.), com'bine (n.), 

 es'crow (n.) , in'trigue (n.), re'tail (v.) . ac'climate, ac'iamen, arbumen, 

 back'gamraon, con'suminate (ad.), ex'culpate, hor'izon, in'qniry, 

 luu'seum, oc'topus, op'ponent, ordeal, cnr'alor, va'gary, prec'edence, 

 i'dea, con'dolence, in'terment. 



(2) In the following words the lexicographer admits the 

 accent on either of two syllables, still preferring the older 

 accentuation, 



On the second rather than the first syllable : — 

 Ally, annex (n.), atoll, Balkan, basalt, campliene, canine, cement, 

 comment (v.), contour, costume, cuirass, decrease (n.), defile (n.), 

 depot, detail (n.), diverse, ensign (v.), expert (n.), finance, gourmet, 

 inverse, levee, madame, narrate, oblate, papa, penult, peruke, por- 

 tent (n.), prestige, saline, shellac, survey (n.), tolu, toucan, undress 

 (a., n.), vignette, vizir, waylay, jaguar, abdomen, acerbate, antiquist, 

 archival, aspirant, Bodleian, caffeic, caffein, caffeone, cephalic, chiragra, 

 compensate, composite, concentrate, confiscate, conflagrate, conglobate, 

 constellate, consummate (v.), contemplate, coruscate, decorous, demon- 

 strate, despumate, discrepant, diversely, enervate, envelop(e) (n.), 

 environs, excretal, excretive, expurgate, exsiccate, extirpate, illustrate, 

 inundate, ogival, perfume (v.), pertubate (v.), phlegmatic, placard (v.), 

 plethonic, prelude (v.), progress (v.), recondite, samara, splenetic, sub- 

 sidence, synclinal, trachea, trilobate, viola, accessary, accessory, acet- 

 amid(e), acetylene, actiniform, adeniforni, aheolar, alveolate, anten- 

 nary, appetitive, camelopard, chalcedony, consistory, decorously, decor- 

 ousness, discrepancy, disputable, enervate, executive, febrifugal, illus- 

 trator, prolocutor, prolocutrix, reconditeness, accessorily, accessoriness, 

 alveolary, alveolated, disputableness, dissylable, inspiratory, prolocutor- 

 ship, respiratory. 



On the third rather thati the first syllable : — 



Abatis, avatar, badinage, mandarin, adjectival, connectival, gene- 



tival, mandarinate, mandariness, mandarinism, relatival, substantival, 



adjectivally. 



On the fourth rather than the first syllable : — 

 Nominatival. 



On the third rather than the second syllable : — 



Infecund, renaissance, subsaline, bicephalic, climacteric, empyreal. 



