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ETYMOLOGICAL GLOSSARY
OF
GRAMMATICAL TERMS.

FEW of the terms explained below are used by the author,
and many of them are misused or badly constructed, e.g.
" article," "accusative." But, as they are used in many grammatical treatises, it has been thought desirable to explain them,
especially as an explanation is sometimes the best means of
proving them to be superfluous or erroneous, when applied to
English Grammar.1
The References, when not otherwise stated, are to the Paragraphs in How to Parse.
The meaning given opposite to each word is the Etymological
meaning. For a fuller or more accurate definition the pupil is
referred to the Paragraph mentioned in each case.

Ablative (Case) [L. ab,
" from;" latus, " carried "].
The name for a Latin case
denoting, among other
things, ablation, or carrying awny from.
Absolute (Construction) [L.
ab," from;" solut-, "loosed"].
A construction in which a
Noun, Participle, &c., is
used apart, i.e. loosedJfrom,
its ordinary Grammatical
adjuncts (Par. 135).
Abstract (Noun) [L. abs,
"from; " tract-, "drawn "].
The name of an abstraction,
i.e. of something considered

by itself, apart from (drawn
away from ) the circumstances in which it exists.
Accent [L. ad, "to; " cant.s,
"song "]. Perhaps originally a sing-song, or modulation of the voice, added to a
syllable. Now used of stress
laid on a syllable.
Accidence [L. accident,
"befall"]. That part of
grammar which treats of
the changes that befall
words.
Accusative (Case). The
Latin name for the Direct
Objective Inflexion. Pos

1 Many of the definitions are taken with little modification from
the useful Etymological Dictionary published by Messrs. W. & R.
Chambers, London and Edinburgh, 1867.
b