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comparative method

American

noun

Historical Linguistics.

a body of procedures and criteria used by linguists to determine whether and how two or more languages are related and to reconstruct forms of their hypothetical parent language.

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Where the slopes were not seamed with open crevasses we "glissaded," which is a very expeditious and exhilarating method of getting down a mountain, although unsafe unless one is certain of his ground.

From McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 6, May, 1896 by Various

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