Word of the Week: “To Become”

From BAILEY:
To BECOME [of be and cpeman, Sax. to please, of bequemen, G. to adapt or make fit, or bequem, G. fit, or of bekommen, G. to thrive or agree with] to befit, to adorn; also to be made or done. 
From JOHNSON:
To BECO’ ME. v. n. pret. I became; comp. pret. I have become. [from [...]

Item of the Day: The Enquirer (1797)

Full Title:  THE ENQUIRER.  Reflections on Education, Manners, and Literature, In a Series of Essays by William Godwin.  Philadelphia:  Printed for Robert Campbell & Co. by John Bioren. 1797.  http://www.britannica.com/eb/art/print?id=11129&articleTypeId=1
ESSAY X.
Of Politeness.
SECT. I.
It has been no unfrequent profession among men of a bold temper, and who are smitten with a love for the sublimer virtues, [...]

Item of the Day: Transactions of the American Philosophical Society (1793)

Full Title:  Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, held at Philadelphia, for Promoting Useful Knowledge. Volume III.  Philadelphia: Printed by R. Aitken & Son, 1789-1786-1793.
INTRODUCTION
To Vol. the Third.
An Essay on those inquiries in Natural Philosophy, which at present are most beneficial to the United States of North America.  by DR. NICHOLAS COLLIN, Rector of the Swedish [...]