Nathan Bailey, Dictionarium Britannicum (1730)

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Date
1730
Lexicographer
Book title
Dictionarium Britannicum: Or a more Compleat Universal Etymological English dictionary Than any Extant. Containing Not only the Words, and their Explication; but their Etymologies from the Antient British, Teutonick, Low and High Dutch, Saxon, Danish, Norman and Modern French, Italian, Spanish, Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Chaldee, &c. each in its proper Character. Also Explaining hard and technical Words, or Terms of Art, in all the Arts, Sciences, and Mysteries following. Together with Accents directing to their proper Pronuntiation, shewing both the Orthography and Orthoepia of the English Tongue, Viz. In Agriculture, Algebra, Anatomy, Architecture, Arithmetick, Astrology, Astronomy, Botanicks, Catoptricks, Chymistry, Chyromangy, Chirurgery, Confectionary, Cookery, Cosmography, Dialling, Dioptricks, Ethicks, Fishing, Fortification, Gardening, Gauging, Geography, Geometry, Grammar, Gunnery, Handicrafts, Hawking, Heraldry, Horsemanship, Husbandry, Hydraulicks, Hydrography, Hydrostaticks, Law, Logick, Maritime and Military Affairs, Mathematicks, Mechanicks, Merchandize, Metaphysicks, Meteorology, Navigation, Opticks, Otacousticks, Painting, Perspective, Pharmacy, Philosophy, Physick, Physiognomy, Pyrotechny, Rhetorick, Sculpture, Staticks, Statuary, Surveying, Theology, and Trigonometry. Illustrated with near Five Hundred Cuts, for Giving a clearer Idea of those Figures, not so well apprehended by verbal Description. Likewise A Collection and Explanation of Words and Phrases us'd in our antient Charters, Statutes, Writs, Old Records and Processes at Law. Also The Theogony, Theology, and Mythology of the Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, &c. being an Account of their Deities, Solemnities, either Religious or Civil, their Divinations, Auguries, Oracles, Hieroglyphicks, and many other curious Matters, necessary to be understood, especially by the Readers of English Poetry. To which is added, A Collection of Proper Names of Persons and Places in Great-Britain, with their Etymologies and Explications. The Whole digested into an Alphabetical Order, not only for the Information of the Ignorant, but the Entertainment of the Curious; and also the Benefit of Artificers, Tradesmen, Young Students and Foreigners. A Work useful for such as would Understand what they Read and Hear, Speak what they Mean, and Write true English. Collected by several hands, The Mathematical part by G. Gordon, the Botanical by P. Miller. The Whole Revis'd and Improv'd, with many thousand Additions, By N. Bailey.
Publication place
London
Publisher
T. Cox
Text type
printed book
Genre
General English Dictionaries and Glossaries
Language
headwords: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: headword
sample: STA'TIONARY [stationarius, prob. of statione, L. because in antient times they kept their shops together in one station or street] a dealer in paper, books, &c.
STC
T087977
Other editions
1736 (ESTC T087976; 2nd edn.)
Criticisms
Simpson, John A. "Nathaniel Bailey and the Search for a Lexicographical Style." Lexicographers and their Works. Ed. G. James. n.p.: University of Exeter Press, n.d. 181-91. view record
McCracken, David. "The Drudgery of Defining: Johnson's Debt to Bailey's Dictionarium Britannicum." Modern Philology 66 (1969): 338-41. view record
Tucker, Susie I. "Dyche and Pardon's Dictionary: A Study in Personal Bias." English: The Journal of the English Association 11:66 (1957): 226-29. view record