

M 5 





Hit* 



. niuxiiiH in i ...i thu very rulo of o.-thoJotality 



part O!HO of or</M>graphy (Qrook, yptupn, pro 



' MM. 



rbcar, 



:illy tli." 





 me has two signi: n.-! lo oouio over 



mid the means to subdue both the one and the other, com* 



jKflli'.i',- .is wwll the vvercvmert an tho otercom* to be bis tributaries." 

 is." 



" AIiio. Can such things bo 



ma us like a summer's clon.l, 

 Without our Hj-ocml wouder ?" SJutfccvpeart. 



!:!! riiii.l'.y.>'l fur aboi ' two hmi'i" 



I as an Anu'ru-anism. To oiwtake is to coino up with iu 

 walking or running. 



" And had he not in his extremest need 

 Been hi-lp<-d tlmni','li tho swiftness of his 



. nl him oivrldtt'ii in his flight."- Sjieiuw. 



In tho passive the verb overtake sooras to denote tho being sud- 

 denly suryK'i.-v' into an action ; *"r t ///.- is from tho Frt>i. 

 prendro (consisting of sur, above or on-/-, and prcndro, / //. i, 

 whence surprise is tho same as overtake in both derivation and 

 meaning. 



" Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault." Gal. vi. 1. 



It is not difficult to see how to overtake may moan to pet over, 

 overcome, surprise, but how it means to como up with is losa 

 easy to conceive. The notion of over, or of superiority may, 

 however, lie in tho act by which you succeed in coming up to 

 the person yon wish to overtake ; thus, by walking more quickly 

 than he, you overtake your friend, you take a step over his, and 

 get beyond him. 



Out, of Saxon origin. ' . is a very common 



prefix, as in outbid, outdo, outface, outlaw, oit/live, outstrip, etc. 



has nothing to do with out. Outrage comes from the 



mediaeval Latin word ultraginm, through the French oultraige, 



. Ultragium, from ultra, beyond, denoted a surplusage 



paid to the lord by his subject on failure of paying his dues in 



proper time, whence outrage came to signify something in excess 



and to have an offensive meaning. 



Pan, of Greek origin (was, pas, m. ; iracra, pa'-sa f. ; TW, pan, n., 

 all), is found in 2>miacea (Greek, euceo/uu, pronounced a-ke'-o-mi, 

 / heal), all-heal, a universal remedy ; in pancreas (Greek, /cpeaj, 

 pronounced kre'-as, flesh), all flesh that is, the sweetbread ; 

 and in pandects (Greek, 5* xM> pronounced dek'-o-mi, I receive), 

 a common title of the Greek miscellanies. Tho term is known 

 in history in its application to a digest of the civil law published 

 by tho Emperor Justinian. Again, pan occurs in pantheism 

 (Greek, 0tos, pronounced tho'-os, God), all-goodness that is, the 

 system whih regards God and the universe as the same. Pan 

 forms the first part of pantomime (Greek juijuos, pronounced 

 mi'-mos, a mimic; and the word mimic is from mimos), all- 

 mimicry, because the performance consisted solely of imitation. 



" The pantomime* who maintained their reputation from the age of 

 Augustus to the sixth century, expressed, without the use of words, 

 the various fables of tho gods and heroes of antiquity ; and the per- 

 fection of their art, which sometimes disarmed the gravity of the phi- 

 losopher, always excited the applause and wonder of the people." 

 Gibbon, "Roman Empire." 



Para, of Greek origin (irapo, pronounced par-ra, by the side of, 

 A3 in parallels, i.e.. parallel linos), has in English various accepta- 

 tions. In parable (Greek, 0aA\a>, pronounced bal'-lo, / thron-), 

 something put by the side of another thing, a comparison, a 

 similitude. In Scripture, tho parables of tho Old Testament are 

 short, pithy, and weighty sayings ; the parables of the New 

 Testament are short tales, setting forth religions truth under 

 similitudes ; tho former are apothegms : the latter allegories. 

 Para appears in paraclete (Greek, icaXtiy, pronounced kul'-iue, to 

 call), the Advocate or Comforter (John xiy. 16). 



Paradi* is a Penian word, denoting a park, and has no con- 

 ueotfon with tho Greek para / in Hebrew, panLct, garden. 



of Latin origin (pan, partis, a part), appears inparfiei. 

 pate (Latin, eapto, / teJb) thai is, to partake. Thi word par. 



.1 hybrid, being* formed of MI Enffti*h Mid a Latin ward ; 



ref or* a cross in the brawl between Latin MM! BnffUsh. 



or jx-nta, of Greek origin (, pronounced pen' -to. /tW), 



'fajron, a figure baring fir* MdM; j-mtatnch (Jt*f/M), 

 the name given to what are called " the Are book* of MOM* " 



...;.'. I . - I. ..-. .. .--.-. v 



"f L*tin origin, throuyh, by; w, pr/adrentarv. fry rhanrr. 

 >iind in prnunbalate (Utin, ambulo, I wo/1), to walk 



through, ". 



" The ancUmU ued to crown rirffM wHh the ftowen of tU* phai 

 (milkwort) when they jvnmluleUd the field., to iaplom IwtiUty 

 tboreto." Mi/Ur, " (Jardrac/i Dictionary." 



The per pane* into pol in poHuto (Latin, pollao, p*r, and Intern, 

 , found ahra in pofliciUtion, a promiidng, from the 

 Latin polliceor, I promite. 



< >f Greek origin (pi, prononnced per'- re), meaning arownJ; 



-k. ftp*, fer'-ro, / bear), a drenmfereaee j 



yoriphnuU (Greek, fpeurit, fn,'-ri, a phratr, a fpeecfc). 



or roundabout mode of utterance; a*, Un- 



ion j .tl . 



< >i Greek origin (<pt\ot, fil'-lo*. a loner), M in 

 philologor, a lover of science (particularly the science of lan- 

 guage) ; p/tt/osopher (Greek, <ro<pia, sof -i-a, vi*<Unn), a lorer of 

 wisdom ; philomel (Greek, ^Aor , mel'-loii, a tuny), applied to 

 the nightingale ; philanthropy (Greek, arOpwoi, ao-tkro -pot, a 

 the lore of mankind. 



of Greek origin (Greek, wm, fu'-nw, nature), physic. 

 and physician, originally meant natural philosophy and a "ftnnl 

 philosopher; but derivatively, the words came to refer to a 

 knowledge of such natural objects as were held to conduce to 

 tho art of healing. Physics, plural, still means Natural Philo- 

 sophy; and the French word phijricien means a Natural Philo- 

 sopher, or one acquainted with the laws of nature. 



/ '/. ysiognomy consists of the Greek words <pixru , f u'-sis, nature, 

 and yiyvuffieu, gi-no'-sko, I knov ; and so properly denotes a 

 knowledge of nature by outward appearances; but, as employed. 

 the word signifies a knowledge of a man's character, as gamed 

 from his countenance. Physiology is the science of nature, but 

 in a particular way ; a science, that is, of the structure and lawn 

 of the human frame in particular, and of animal organisation in 

 general. 



" I find that the most eminent and original 

 (M. Cuvier) has been led, by his culight 



*f the 



the laws of the animal economy, into a train of thinking strikingly 



similar. ' Diu/aU Stnrart, " I'Uilotophy of tin Mind." 



'. of Latin origin (plenns, full; henoo plenty), is found in 

 plenipotentiary (Latin, potens, powerful), one who has been 

 entrusted with full power or authority. 



" Let the ploiipotentiary sophisters of England settle with the diplo- 

 matic sophisters of France in what manner right is to be collected by 

 an infusion of wrong, and how truth may be rendered more true by a 

 due intermixture of falsehood." Btirt*. 



The Greek word *-Aor (ple'-os) is the same as the Latin plena*. 

 found in our " plenty." This word supplies the first syllable in 

 pleonasm, a fulness of expression so as to become exce*-: 



" It is a )dm<i*in, a fignre used in Scripture, by a muU>jlletty of 

 expressions, to signify some one notable thing.** 8*tfc. 



of Greek origin (voAvr, pol'-nse, many, much\ appear* 

 .nithus (Greek, wtor, an'-thos, o flover), so called from 

 its many flowers; and in polygamy (Greek, yupot [gam'-oe" 

 uirri<ij/-), having many wives. 



" Polygamy was not commonly tolerated in Onsee, for Bsantage 

 was thought to be a conjunction of one maa with one wossss " fvtttr, 

 m of Grttci" 



;lso the first syllable of polyglot (Greek, 7Xrrra, gloaf-U. 

 a tonyite), one who knows many languages ; also a book written 

 in ;ii.niy languages, as the " Polyglot l: 



Pott, of Latin origin, after, a/krmmb, appears in postdate, 



fter the timf of \mtiay. at some later tune; in postpone 

 (Latin, pono, I ptacr), to put of; aad in porfsoript (Latin, 

 scriptum, a >(-.'' -D. something added to a letter. 



