. See _Psalm_ xix, 1. The text is
varied thus: "And the firmament _sheweth_ his _handiwork_."--_Johnson's
Dict._. "And the firmament _sheweth_ his _handy-work_."--_Scott's Bible_;
_Bruce's Bible_; _Harrison's Gram._, p. 83. "And the firmament _showeth_
his _handy work_."--_Alger's Bible_; _Friends' Bible_; _Harrison's Gram._,
p. 103.

[117] Here a word, formed from its root by means of the termination _ize_,
afterwards assumes a prefix, to make a secondary derivative: thus, _organ_,
_organize, disorganize_. In such a case, the latter derivative must of
course be like the former; and I assume that the essential or primary
formation of both from the word _organ_ is by the termination _ize_; but it
is easy to see that _disguise, demise, surmise_, and the like, are
essentially or primarily formed by means of the prefixes, _dis, de_, and
_sur_. As to _advertise, exercise, detonize_, and _recognize_, which I have
noted among the exceptions, it is not easy to discover by which method we
ought to suppose them to have been formed; but with respect to nearly all
others, the distinction is very plain; and though there may be no _natural
reason_ for founding upon it such a rule as the foregoing, the voice of
general custom is as clear in this as in most other points or principles of
orthography, and, surely, some rule in this case is greatly needed.

[118] _Criticise_, with _s_, is the orthography of Johnson, Walker,
Webster, Jones, Scott, Bolles, Chalmers, Cobb, and others; and so did
Worcester spell it in his Comprehensive Dictionary of 1831, but, in his
Universal and Critical Dictionary of 1846, he wrote it with _z_, as did
Bailey in his folio, about a hundred years ago. Here the _z_ conforms to
the foregoing rule, and the _s_ does not.

[119] Like this, the compound _brim-full_ ought to be written with a hyphen
and accented on the last syllable; but all our lexicographers have
corrupted it into _brim'ful_, and, contrary to the authorities they quote,
accented it on the first. Their noun _brim'fulness_, with a like accent, is
also a corruption; and the text of Shakspeare, which they quote for it, is
nonsense, unless _brim_, be there made a separate adjective:--

"With ample and _brimfulness_ of his force."--_Johnson's Dict._ _et al_.

"With _ample_ and _brim fullness_ of his force," would be better.

[120] According to Littleton, the _coraliticus lapis_ was a kind of
Phrygian marble, "called _Coralius_ or by an other