as a thinking man, a man of prudence; a pacing horse, a horse that
can pace: these I have ventured to call participial adjectives.
But neither are these always inserted, because they are commonly
to be understood, without any danger of mistake, by consulting the
verb.

Obsolete words are admitted, when they are found in authours not
obsolete, or when they have any force or beauty that may deserve
revival.

As composition is one of the chief characteristicks of a language,
I have endeavoured to make some reparation for the universal negligence
of my predecessors, by inserting great numbers of compounded words,
as may be found under after, fore, new, night, fair, and many more.
These, numerous as they are, might be multiplied, but that use and
curiosity are here satisfied, and the frame of our language and
modes of our combination amply discovered.

Of some forms of composition, such as that by which re is prefixed
to note repetition, and un to signify contrariety or privation,
all the examples cannot be accumulated, because the use of these
particles, if not wholly arbitrary, is so little limited, that
they are hourly affixed to new words as occasion requires, or is
imagined to require them.

There is another kind of composition more frequent in our language
than perhaps in any other, from which arises to foreigners the
greatest difficulty. We modify the signification of many verbs by
a particle subjoined; as to come off, to escape by a fetch; to fall
on, to attack; to fall off, to apostatize; to break off, to stop