Gabriel Harvey, Pierces Supererogation (1593)
Full Text
EEBO/TCP
Date
1593
Author
Book title
Pierces Supererogation Or A New Prayse of the Old Asse. A Preparatiue to certaine larger Discourses, intituled Nashes S. Fame
Publication place
London
Publisher
John Wolf
Transcription source
Scolar Press facsimile (Bodleian Library). An EEBO/TCP transcription is also available
Text type
printed book
Genre
Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions
Subject area
- branded words
- hard words
Language
headwords: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
Extent
178-182
Word-group
type: undifferentiated
Word-entry
type: gloss
sample: The ignorant Idiot (for so I will prooue him in very truth) confuteth the artificiall wordes, which he neuer read: but the vayne fellow (for so he prooueth himselfe in word, and deede) in a phantasticall emulation presumeth to forge a mishapen rablement of absurde, and ridiculous wordes, the proper bodges of his newfangled figure, called Foolerisme: such as Inkhornisme, Absonisme, the most copious Carminist, thy Carminicall art, a Prouiditore of young Schollars, a Corrigidore of incongruitie, a quest of Caualieros, Inamoratos on their workes, a Theologicall Gimpanado, a Dromi dote Ergonist, sacrilegiously contaminated, decrepite capacitie, fiactionate person, humour vnconuersable, merriments vnexilable, the horrisonant pipe of inueterate antiquitie; and a number of such Inkhornish phrases, as it were a pan of outlandish collops, the very bowels of his profoundest Schollerisme. (179-80)
sample: The ignorant Idiot (for so I will prooue him in very truth) confuteth the artificiall wordes, which he neuer read: but the vayne fellow (for so he prooueth himselfe in word, and deede) in a phantasticall emulation presumeth to forge a mishapen rablement of absurde, and ridiculous wordes, the proper bodges of his newfangled figure, called Foolerisme: such as Inkhornisme, Absonisme, the most copious Carminist, thy Carminicall art, a Prouiditore of young Schollars, a Corrigidore of incongruitie, a quest of Caualieros, Inamoratos on their workes, a Theologicall Gimpanado, a Dromi dote Ergonist, sacrilegiously contaminated, decrepite capacitie, fiactionate person, humour vnconuersable, merriments vnexilable, the horrisonant pipe of inueterate antiquitie; and a number of such Inkhornish phrases, as it were a pan of outlandish collops, the very bowels of his profoundest Schollerisme. (179-80)
Schafer
1593 H
STC
12903
Facsimiles
Harvey, Gabriel. Pierce's supererogation, 1593. Menston: Scolar Press, 1970. view record
Modern editions
Harvey, Gabriel. Works. Ed. Alexander B. Grosart. 3 vols. n.p.: Privately printed, 1884-85. view record
