Of these words about forty only are proper, yet though they are so, and though they are frequently to be found in the best authors, yet the Doctor has not given any authority for them. His reading therefore must have been very circumscribed, or his negligence very great. Is the word _Avowee_, for instance, one of those which 'are however, to be yet considered as resting only upon the credit of former dictionaries[143].' Besides these forty, there are under letter A, some hundreds of the most common words, for which no author's name is quoted. A gross omission according to the plan which he lays down. Let us put the case, that a foreigner sits down to compose a page of English, by the help of Dr Johnson's work. The strange combinations of letters (for I dare not call them words) which swell his book to its present bloated size, are not marked with an asterisk, to distinguish them as barbarous: The novice would therefore adopt a stile unknown to any native of England. Here is a short specimen of what he would say. 'An _Admurmuration_ has long wandered about the world, that the pensioner's political principles are _anfractuous_. Their _anfractuousness_, their _insipience_, and their _turpitude_, are no longer _amphibological_. His _nefarious repercussion_ of _obloquy_ must _contaminate_, and _obumbrate_, and who can tell but it may even _aberuncate_ his _feculent_ and _excrementitious celebrity_. His _perspicacity_ will see without _comity_, or _hilarity_, that his character as an author and a gentleman, requires _resuscitation_, for it is neither _immane_ nor _immarcessible_. This is a _homogeneous_ truth[144]. Let him distend, like the _flaccid_ sides of a football[145], his _sal_, his _sapience_, and his powers of _ratiocination_. The _mellifluous_ and _numerose cadence_ of _equiponderant_ periods cannot ensure him from a _luxation_, a _laceration_, and a _resiliency_ of his _adminicular concatenation_ with the _rugged mercantile_ race[146]. The loss of this _adscititious adminicle_ would make the sage's _impeccable_, but _lugubrious_ bosom vibrate with the horrors of _dilution_ and _dereliction_. His organs of vision would gush with _salsamentarious_ torrents of spherical particles, of equal diameters, and of equal specific gravities, as Dr Cheyne observes--their smoothness--their sphericity--their frictions, and their hardness,'[147] &c.