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| The term is merely one of foreign derivation, meaning a clever fellow, or, in more literary and elegant language, a gentleman with whom one must reckon. This word critic is of Greek derivation, and signifies judgment. Touching the derivation of the name Vondervotteimittiss, I confess myself, with sorrow, equally at fault. |
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