Significant Etymology; Or, Roots, Stems, And Branches of the English Language
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To confine is to restrain per- sonal liberty in any way. Dan- gerous madmen must be put in confinement. Confines are the boundary lines. To define is to ex- plain the exact meaning of a word. A definite account of a thing is clear and exact ; an indefinite account is the reverse. Definitive means ex- press and conclusive. A controversy is said to be definitively ended. To refine wine, silver, and gold is to free them from extraneous matter or im- purities; and refinement is a high 236 SIGNIFICA...NT ETYMOLOGY, the name of any person, place, or thing, and called a substantive, as denoting something that exists — from L. substantio, from suhsto, to stand under (sub, under, and stare, to stand). The word gender comes through I", genre-^hom. L. genus, breed — the distinction of nouns according to sex. Nouns may be of the masculine, feminine, or neuter gender. Masculine, from the L. masculus, a male (from mas) ; feminine (from femina, a woman) ; and neuter, from ne, not, and uter, either — ^neither masculine nor f eminiue.
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