And Nugent has accordingly given us the following definition: "Grammar is the art of reading, speaking, and writing a language by rules."-- _Introduction to Dict._, p.

xii.[1] 8.

The word _recte_, rightly, truly, correctly, which occurs in most of the foregoing Latin definitions, is censured by the learned Richard Johnson, in his Grammatical Commentaries, on account of the vagueness of its meaning.
He says, it is not only ambiguous by reason of its different uses in the Latin classics, but destitute of any signification proper to grammar.

But even if this be true as regards its earlier application, it may well be questioned, whether by frequency of use it has not acquired a signification which makes it proper at the present time.

The English word _correctly_ seems to be less liable to such an objection; and either this brief term, or some other of like import, (as, "with correctness"-- "with propriety,") is still usually employed to tell what grammar is.