Hawaii Holomua, Volume I, Number 55, 21 November 1893 — Obsolete Words. [ARTICLE]

Obsolete Words.

Tbe nomber of obsolete wonls that are to be foand in Webster’a Dictionary is considerably larger than jw»ople have anv idea of. The following letter, wr:tten bv j an alleped poet to au editor who had treated his poetry with derision, furnishes some idea of them:—‘Sir: Yoa have behaved like an impediginoos scrople! Like those who, envioas of anv moral celsitnde, earry theii anpicity to tho heipht of creating symposically fecand words my po!lymathic genius uses with uberty to abligate the tongucs of the weetless! Sir, vou have crassly parodied my own jH.'t words as though they wcre trangrams. I will uot coascenate reproaches—I will oiluee a veil over the atrameutal iugmtitude whieh has chamfero«l even mv indiscerj>tible heart. Iam sileut on the focillation whieh mv eoadjuvancy must have given vou when I otFered to become vour fantor an<l adminicle. I will uot speak of the lippitude, the obj lepsy. you have shown in exacerj bating me, whose genius yoa should have approachcd with disca!ceation. So I tell you, without supervacaneons words, uothiug will render ignoscible your condnct to me. I warn vou that I wouhl yellicate your nose if I thought thatany moraldiarthrosis thereby could be performed if I thought I should not impignorate my rejiutation. Go! tachygraphic scrogle, band with your crass inquinate fantors; draw oblectations from the thought. if you ean, of having s\-nchronically lost the existimation of the greatest poet since 5Iilton.’ And yet all these words are to be found in the Dictionary.