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Excerpt from Routledge's French-English and English-French Dictionary IN preparing the present Dictionary, the authors had it in view to compile not a dry nomenclature, but a work adapted to general use, and serviceable both to the English and to the French reader, and - notwithstanding its limited compass -presenting the highest possible degree of completeness and conciseness. To attain this point, it was an indispensable requisite in regard to the copiousness of words, in both languages, to separate the useful and practical from the useless and superuous, and to select such words and have a standard ac society and in classic literature} and are warranted by the best authorities. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.