On English Adjectives in -Able, With Special Reference to Reliable (Classic Reprint)

In 1873, when announcing the preparation of a new volume of Philological Essays, I promised a paper on Reliable Dilation and their Respective Congeners. Subsequently, however, on thinking over the matter, I found, that, in order to treat, with desirable thoroughness, of Reliable and words similar, it was necessary to survey, in connexion with them, our adjectives in -able generally. Acting on this conviction, I put together the greater part of what is now offered, reserving any criticism on Dilation and its analogues for another occasion. But my materials and the comments they had suggested were seen, eventually, to have exceeded tlie limits of a mere chapter. An introduction was prefixed; and here, in an independent form, is the outcome. The following pages, substantially as they at present appear, were ready for type nearly two years ago.
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