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empyrean, encephalic, indecorous, pcstceplialic, proceplialic, qnadrijng- 

 ate, qnadrijngons, reinnndate, indecorously, indecorousness, indisput- 

 able, indnsputably, undisputable, undisputably, indisputableness, undis- 

 putableness. 



On the fourth rather than the second syllable : — 

 Coniparatival, diminutival, distributival, imperatival, infinitival. 



On the fourth rather than the third syllable : — 

 Achlorophyllous, acroceplialic, and 27 other compounds of cephalic, 

 interaccessory. 



On the fifth rather than the fotirth syllable : — 

 Anthropomorphosis, brachiocephalic, and 11 other compounds of 

 cephalic. 



On the sixth rather than the fifth syllable : — 

 Amyelencephalic, platyl)racliycephalic, prosodiencephalic. 



(3) In the following words the lexicographer authorizes 

 the accent on either of two syllables, now preferring the new 

 accentuation, 



On the first rather than the second syllable : — 

 Access, adverse, alcove, appulse, asphalt, basset, baton, berlin, 

 bezant,, bouget, brogan, buffet, calcine, chopine, concrete (n.), consols, 

 construe, content (n.), curvet, duress, egress, enema, essay (n.), exile, 

 extant, fecund, firman, frontier, glacis, Hindu, holla, impulse, innate, 

 increase (n.), inlay (n.), inside, Koran, legume, magot, morel, ogive, 

 outside, perfume (n.), permit (n.), placard (n.), prelude (n.), pre- 

 sage (n.), prescript (n.) , pretext, prolix, purport, quinine, rampage, 

 sepoy, sojourn, spinel, spinet, tapis, traverse (ad.), upright, acetous, 

 adjuvant, agaric, alternate (v.), Byzantiiie, calciner, cantonment, cathe- 

 dra, cissoidal, commenter, concretely, concretism, concreteness, denud- 

 ate, equer(r)y, exarchate, exedra, fecundate, frontiersman, imbecile, 

 innately, innateness, interstice, jerboa, levantine, momental, Nemean, 

 obdurate, perfecter, perturbate (a.), prolixly, prolixness, quandary, 

 racemous, recusant, reflex, remigrate, reuitence, renitent, Sabaoth, 

 sojourner, sojournment, subaltern, trijugous, tripartite, advertise, aeoli- 

 phile, aggrandizement, aristocrat, Byzantism, calcinable, capillary, ceph- 

 alod(e), cuneiform, deflagrable, excretory, exemplary, heresiarch, liber- 

 ticule, obduracy, orthoepy, polyphony, renitency, telegrapher, telegraph- 

 ist, telegraphy, telepathist, telepathy, telescopist, telescopy, tripartitely, 



