 | William Alanson White - Mental illness - 1911 - 156 pages
...attention. Such an example is that of the definition of network in Johnson's English Dictionary as, "anything reticulated or decussated at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections." Even such a definition suggests that some of the words used to define might themselves need to be defined.... | |
 | Robert Herrick, Lindsay Todd Damon - English language - 1911 - 592 pages
...affectation; write naturally. No one suspects Dr. Johnson of affectation, but when he defines network as "anything reticulated or decussated at equal distances with interstices between the intersections," we rightly say "This is pedantic style." When an orator avoids the simple phrase "falling into harmless... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 744 pages
...is to be explained, and such terms cannot always be found; for as nothing can be proved but by 1 " Anything reticulated or decussated, at equal distances, with interstices between the Intersections." supposing something intuitively known, and evident without proof, so nothing can be defined but by... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 744 pages
...is to be explained, and such terms cannot always be found; for as nothing can be proved but by 1 " Anything reticulated or decussated, at equal distances, with interstices between the Intersections." supposing something intuitively known, and evident without proof, so nothing can be denned but by the... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 754 pages
...is to be explained, and such terms cannot always be found; for as nothing can be proved but by 1 " Anything reticulated or decussated, at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections." supposing something intuitively known, and evident without proof, so nothing can be defined but by... | |
 | Noah Webster - English language - 1912 - 1214 pages
...ignorance into contempt," some of them were none the less derided, such as the classic one of network: "Anything reticulated or decussated at equal distances with interstices between the intersections." In some cases he used them as a vehicle for the expression of his personal feelings and prejudices,... | |
 | Reuben Post Halleck - Literary Criticism - 1913 - 678 pages
...putrefaction." In CHESHIRE CHEESE INN, FLEET STREET, LONDON his Dictionary he defined " network " as " anything reticulated or decussated at equal distances with interstices between the intersections." Some wits of the day said that .he used long words to make his Dictionary necessary. In the second... | |
 | Reuben Post Halleck - Literary Criticism - 1913 - 672 pages
...putrefaction." In CHESHIRE CHEESE INN, FLEET STREET, LONDON his Dictionary he defined " network" as " anything reticulated or decussated at equal distances with interstices between the intersections." Some wits of the day said that he used long words to make his Dictionary necessary. In the second place,... | |
 | Frank H. Vizetelly - English language - 1915 - 56 pages
...minds than my own." Again, apropos of the synonym we have the much-bequizzed definition of network as "anything reticulated or decussated at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections" — a definition that prompted Goldsmith to say that if Johnson were to write a fable about little... | |
 | Arthur Parker Stone, Stewart Lee Garrison - Debates and debating - 1916 - 356 pages
...methods of definition with Doctor Johnson's definition of a net-work, quoted by Baker and Huntingdon:1 "anything reticulated or decussated at equal distances with interstices between the intersections." In other words the Carious methods of definition require more defining than the term to be defined.... | |
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Network: anything reticulated or decussated, at equal distances with interstices between the intersections. 
