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tohis word has been thrown out of the 
‘Jqgiage. Why? The adjective full and 
Jeequire to be compounded with fub- 
ffives: thus one may fay, a frastful 
pet, a fruitlefs orchard: fuch epithets 
aftriftly intelligible. But what is a 
bitch? what does full of bewitches fig- 
y? The fyllable de includes the idea of 
‘afitive action; fo that the infinitive 
ods of verbs formed therewith are ne- 
Yarily incomplete fubftantives. If, by 
2 annexation of an accufative cafe, fuch 
finitives were firft completed, it fhould 
em they would become capable of this 
irt of compofition—ear-bewitchful voice, 
ower-bedrenchlefs ftream. 
Bickerment.—The formative fyllables a/ 
ind ment once bore to each other the fame 
‘elation as the aétive and paffive voices of 
a verd: thus avowal, burial, removal, 
fuppofal, trial, &c. meant the act of avow- 
ing, burying, removing, fuppofing, try- 
ing, &c. and adornment, blemifhment, ccn- 
cealment, employment, refinement, &c. 
meant the flate of being adorned, blemith- 
ed, concealed, employed, refined, &c. 
By a carelefs ufe of thefe fyllables their 
_diftingtion has been confounded ; and with 
their appropriate and diicriminate mean- 
ing they have loft their ancient utility. 
Hence they are no longer applicable, as 
in Shakefpeare’s time, to the formation of 
new words: and many words, to which 
they have been improperly applied, are 
finking from difufe into oblivion. The 
ftudiers of our older literature mut often 
have been led to obferve, that words ana- 
logically formed (uncouth as they might 
at firft appear) have moftly attained an 
eventual and lafting popularity ; but that 
anomalous expreflions (however welcome 
and current fora time) cannot be kept in 
circulation even by the efforts of writers 
the moft deiervediy valued. 
What is bickerment, or the fiate of being 
bickered ?. Nonfenfe. Verbs neuter, which, 
can have no paffive voice, are, in this 
form, neceflarily without meaning, and 
therefore incapable of affuming it gram- 
matically. 
Bidet.—if Mr. Mafon were to call on 
fome elegant cabinet-maker, and to afk 
for a bidet, he would perceive that it con- 
fifts of a large oval bafin concealed in 
a four-footed ark ; and he would learn, 
in a whifper, that thofe ‘ fmitten with 
emerods” perform in fuch vafes the pre- 
{cribed ablutions, 
Bond-woman.—Mr. Mafon defines this 
word by the contiguous term bondfwoman : 
furely a boud-man means a man-flaye, 
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and a bozdfman, one who is bound, or 
gives fecurity for another: in which cafe 
the two feminine fubftantives muft. pre- 
ferve alike relation. A bound man anda 
man of bond, by their very etymology, 
ought fo to differ. 
Baot-jack.—This very common inftru~ 
ment is omitted both by Johnfon and 
Mafon. 
Bountiefz.—So vulgar a folecifm ought 
not to be recorded without reprobation., 
PBranfle.—Probably this is the French 
root whence the Englith word brawl is 
derived. 
Brazuned.—Theword would now mean 
converted into drawa: let the head of 
that hog be brawzned and collared. 
Bridaliy —Al\though much wanted in 
Englifh—although employed by fo claffical 
a {cholar as Ben Jonfon, this word has 
noi been received into the language, from 
the Jatent perception that it is anomalous, 
The fyllable ty is indeed often added to 
adjectives in q@/, in order to tranfmute 
them into fubftantives, as loyalty, royalty, 
but it unites not with words of Saxon 
origin; and bride is of this clafs: it came 
over in the fuite of the Norman families 
of words, and lacqueys only its early con- 
nexions. 
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For the Monthly Magazine. 
ACCOUNT of MR. SCHWARTNER’S STA- 
TISTICAL Essay on the KINGDOM of 
HUNGARY .—From the Bibliotheque Ger- 
MaANIGue » 
N important addition has been made 
AN to the treafures of German Hiftory 
by this work, which, under the modett 
title of “* Efay,”’ prefents an enlarged 
view both of the natural advantages waich 
have been lavifhed upon this. interefting 
country, and of the patriotifm and liberal 
{pirit which there prevail. SAW ie 
The introduétion to the work contains 
feveral preliminary enquiries relative to ~ 
the different parts, and the beft fources of 
political and literary hiftory, and in parti- 
cularon the benefit to be expetted from 
ftatiftical refearches in this dominion. The 
author divides his fubjeét into three fec- 
tions, after the manner of Ackenwall and 
Schloezer:—1ft. The ‘integrant parts of 
the kingdom. -2d. The country—inhabi- 
tants and productions. 3d. The confti- 
tution and government. | 
The fundamental code of Hungarian 
law, the compacts, tran{factions, and trea- 
ties, which compofe the conftitution of 
this country, are all collected in the Corpus 
Juris Hungaria, che laft edition of which 
Was 
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