Word: dormant
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...American Colleges the smaller institutions have been left out in the cold, and although, doubtless, ready and willing to row, they have found no suitable races in which to enter. Here is a grand chance for reviving college rivalry and rousing the boating interest, which is fast becoming dormant...
...Homer not only divided his great work into twenty-four books, but, according to the opinion of some very sagacious; critics, hawked them all separately, delivering only one book at a time (probably by subscription). He was the first inventor of that art, which hath lain so long dormant, of publishing by numbers, - an art now brought to such perfection that even dictionaries are divided and exhibited piecemeal to the public; nay, one bookseller hath (to encourage learning and ease the public) contrived to give them a dictionary in this divided manner for only fifteen shillings more than it would...