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It is not only important, but, in a degree necessary, that the people of this country, should have an American Dictionary of the English language; for, although the body of the language is the same as in England, and it is desirable to perpetuate that sameness, yet some differences must exist. Language is the expression of ideas; and if the people of one country cannot preserve an identity of ideas, they cannot retain an identity of language. |
EM'BOLISM, n. [Gr. to throw in, to insert.]
Intercalation; the insertion of days, months,
or years, in an account of time, to produce regularity; as, the
embolism of a lunar month in the Greek year.
Intercalated time.
Johnson. The occlusion of a blood
vessel by an embolus. Embolism in the brain often produces sudden
unconsciousness and paralysis.
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