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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1844 Excerpt: ...What is to antedate a will? (To date it before the real time of its execution.) To addabove? to add-beyond? (to superadd.) Abstr. subst. from superadd? (superaddition.) From dare we have a great number of derivatives, some of which are very much disguised. 141 da-, .1 (!) datum, pi. data, = 'thing given.' "I have no data to dat-, j go upon: " nothing is given me on which I can form an opinion. (2) con-dition, ' the placing together: ' used (a) of the limit ation or terms which are added to an agreement; so that the terms and the engagement are placed together, as it were, and proposed together to the acceptance of the person who is to perform the condition 9: (4) a person's state or rank in life; the circumstances which, when put-together, determine who and what he is. (3) a man-date manus = hand: 'what is given to (or into) a person's hand "V a command handed to him. (4) re-con-dite'; put-bacle-together: used of what is rare and hidden from common eyes. (5) tradition: 'the handing across, ' or what is handed across: ' used of knowledge or customs handed down from one generation to another, hut not founded on Iti a letter it is sometimes considered to include the specification of the place where it was written. 8 "To antedate the bliss above."--Pope, = to anticipate it. 9 Hence, adj. conditional. A conditional promise is one that is not binding unless the condition is performed. Opp.' an absolute promise.' 10 This is not a certain derivation. 1 Condere (condidi, conditum), to hide. sub-due: to put-under = to conquer or subjugate enemies, is probably derived from sub-jug-are, not (as Skinner thinks) from subdere. Dandj are readily convertible. (6)perdition = ('theputting through') = ruin, destruction. LESSON XL. Latin Roots2. teach. dol-e-...
