What is to search into the origin of words; to deduce words from their simple roots. How perilous it is to etymologize at random. Trench called?
etymologize — To search into the origin of words; to deduce words from their simple roots. How perilous it is to etymologize at random. Trench. (Webster's 1913.)
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- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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