Lexicographical Neighbors of Asterts
Literary usage of Asterts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1820)
"... and the Three dialogues by Sulpicius Severus, who asterts, (Dialog, i, 16),
that the booksellers of Rome were delighted with the quick and ready sale of ..."
2. The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature by Tobias George Smollett (1807)
"But our author reverts to his favourite theory, by which he excludes sensation
and ideas altogether. It is, he asterts, ttt character of the ..."
3. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1801)
"279. 1. 14- insert by before ' their;' p. 294. Art. X. 1. 13. for asserts, thr &c.
r. asterts ' tlie &c. ; p. 309. 1. i. for ' Count,' read Court. ..."
4. An Analytical and Practical Grammar of the English Language by Peter Bullions (1849)
"For these reasons, the definition of a verh which says it is "a part of speech
which asterts or affirms," appears to me to he ..."
5. The Beauties of England and Wales, Or, Delineations, Topographical by John BRITTON, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees, Thomas Hood, John Harris, Edward Wedlake Brayley (1810)
"... lame subject during this reign, a respectable writer has concluded that Norfolk
then produced a breed of sheep peculiar to itself; because it asterts, ..."
6. Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal (1807)
"... boldly asterts, that he consideri that hospital the best where the mortality
is greatest. The reason is obvious. The better an hospit.il i? managed, ..."
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