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pursuit, zkoumáni, verbal noun.

of or belonging to knowledge, vědecký, adj.

to become, stati se.

watchwords, use sing, heslo, n.s.

of or belonging to the time, časový. These words should be put in the predicative instrumental, as it is called, which will be found fully explained on p. 66.

on which account, pročež; also take.

prejudices, předsudek, s.m. (lit. judgement formed before- hand, před-souď).

which up to that time had pre- vailed, use adj. dosavadní, and put it before the noun ; dosavad, up to that time.

on the subject (lit. in the cause), příčina, s.f., cause.

history, dějiny, s.f. (only used in plural); lit. what is done, hence history. Cf. the Ger. Geschichte.

literary, literární.

memorials, památka, s.f. (fr. po, prep., and mat, the same root as mens).

to disappear, mizeli.

further, dalsi, irreg. comp. of dálný, where the ný is only formative of the adjective.

destruction, hubení, s.n.

to stop, staviti, past part. pass. slavený.

and, here use ano.

occupation, inquiry, pursuit, zpytování.

to show, odkazovali.

friend, přítel, plur. přálely, fr. a root signifying ' to be agree- able '; for irreg. plur. see p. 9.

history; the author uses the word historia, which however is very little employed in Bohemian.

domestic, domoci.

as it were, jakožto.

chief, hlavný, adj.

a source, pramen, s.m.

historical, historický.

truth, pravda, s.f.

especially, particularly, zejména.

century, age, vek, m.

to become, stávali se, iterative of stáli.

favourite, oblíbený (lit. beloved), and thus the past part, of a verb has become an adjec- tive.

subject, předmět'; use pred. instr. The word may also mean object (před, before, and met, to throw). It seems to have come into the other