[Ads-l] a- in a compound verb form, 1768

[Joel Berson]

You, Gentlemen, who live in the Country, seldomhear of these Things, but we, who live in Town, see, feel and hear of themoften --- that there is a going to be a Rumpus, as it is called --- a cant Wordfor a Riot.

Thomas Hutchinson, the well-educated Chief Justice of the Superior Court of Massachusetts-Bay, in a charge to the grand jury.  1768, March term.  
In Josiah Quincy, Junior, _Reports of CasesArgued and Adjudged in the Superior Court of Judicature of the Province ofMassachusetts Bay ..._ (Boston: Little, Brown, 1865), p. 262.  GBooks full view.


The subject of the inserted a- has been discussed here recently.


Joel

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