Abraham Fraunce, The Arcadian Rhetoric (1588)
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Date
1588
Author
Abraham Fraunce Note: 30/09/2005
Book title
The Arcadian rhetoricke: or The præcepts of rhetorike made plaine by examples, Greeke, Latin, English, Italian, French, Spanish
Publication place
London
Publisher
Thomas Orwin
Transcription source
Bodleian Library
Text type
printed book
Genre
Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions
Subject area
- French
- Greek
- Italian
- Latin
- rhetoric
- Spanish
Summary
Logical definitions with many examples
Word-group
type: undifferentiated
Word-entry
type: logical
sample: RHetorike is an Art of speaking. It hath two parts, Eloqution and Pronuntiation. Eloqution is the first part of Rhetorike, concerning the ordering & trimming of speach. It hath also 2. parts, Congruitie and Brauerie. Congruitie is that which causeth the speach to be pure and cohaerent: & it is performed either by Etimologie, which concerneth the affections of seuerall words: or Syntaxis, which dooth orderly conioyne them together. (a2r)
sample: RHetorike is an Art of speaking. It hath two parts, Eloqution and Pronuntiation. Eloqution is the first part of Rhetorike, concerning the ordering & trimming of speach. It hath also 2. parts, Congruitie and Brauerie. Congruitie is that which causeth the speach to be pure and cohaerent: & it is performed either by Etimologie, which concerneth the affections of seuerall words: or Syntaxis, which dooth orderly conioyne them together. (a2r)
Alston
VI.33
STC
11338
Other editions
Cf. LEME #134 (c.1575-1600)
Facsimiles
Fraunce, Abraham. The Arcadian Rhetoric, 1588. English linguistics, 1500-1800, no. 176. Menston: Scolar Press, 1969. view record
Modern editions
Seaton, Ethel, ed. The Arcadian Rhetorike. Luttrell Society, no. 5. Oxford: n.p., 1950. view record
