John Bullokar, An English Expositor (1616)

Full Text
EEBO/TCP
Date
1616
Author
John Bullokar Note: 30/09/2005
Book title
An English Expositor: teaching the interpretation of the hardest words in our language
Publication place
London
Publisher
John Legatt
Transcription source
Scolar Press facsimile (Bodleian Library 8o.B.93.Art)
Text type
printed book
Genre
Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions
Subject area
hard words
Language
headwords: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
Word-group
type: alphabetical
number: 24
Word-entry
type: headword
number: 4155
sample: Effeminate. Womanish, nice.
Alston
V.5
Schafer
1616 B
STC
4083
Catalog
Kennedy, Arthur Garfield. A Bibliography on Writings on the English Language from the Beginning of Printing to the End of 1922. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1927. 6162, 6163 (1621), 6168 (1641), 6173 (1656), 6177 (1667), 6185 (1680), 6188 (1684), 6190 (1688), 6194 (1695), 6209 (1719). view record
Other editions
1621: STC 4084 (Alston V.6);
1641: Wing B5429 (Alston V.7);
1654: Wing B5429a (Alston V.8);
1656: Wing B5430 (Alston V.9);
1663: Wing B5430a (Alston V.10);
1667: Wing B5431 (Alston V.11);
1671: Wing B5431a (Alston V.12);
1676: Wing B5432 (Alston V.13);
1680: Wing B5433 (Alston V.14);
1684: Wing B5434 (Alston V.15);
1688: Wing B5435 (Alston V.16);
1695: Wing B5435a (Alston V.17);
1698: Wing B5436 (Alston V.18)
Facsimiles
McCann, Timothy J. "The Catholic Recusancy of Dr. John Bullaker of Chichester, 1574-1627." Recusant History 11 (1971): 75-86. view record
Bullokar, John. An English Expositor, 1616. English linguistics, 1500-1800, no. 11. Menston: Scolar Press, 1967. view record
Bullokar, John. An English Expositor: Teaching the Interpretation of the Hardest Words Used in our Language: with sundry Explications, Descriptions and Discourses. Anglistica and Americana 71. Hildesheim: Olms, 1971. view record
Criticisms
Schäfer, Jürgen. "Chaucer in Shakespeare's Dictionaries: The Beginning." The Chaucer Review 17.2 (1982 Fall): 182-92. view record
Starnes, DeWitt T., Gertrude E. Noyes, and Gabriele Gabriele. The English Dictionary from Cawdrey to Johnson: 1604-1755. 1946. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 1991. 20-25. view record
Stein, Gabriele. "Illustrations in Dictionaries." International Journal of Lexicography 4.2 (1991): 99-127. view record
Warren, Jonathan. "Reflections of an Electronic Scribe: Two Renaissance Dictionaries and Their Implicit Philosophies of Language." Early Modern Literary Studies (1997 Spring): view record
Sönmez, Margaret. "The Influence of Early Monolingual Dictionaries and Word Lists on the Standardisation of English Spelling." Anglia 119.2 (2001): 207-31. view record
Gotti, Maurizio. "John Bullokar's `Termes of Art'." Advances in English Historical Linguistics (1996). Eds. Jacek Fisiak and Marcin Krygier. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1998. 63-78. view record
Sources
  • Starnes, DeWitt T., and Gertrude E. Noyes. The English Dictionary from Cawdrey to Johnson: 1604-1755. Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 1946. 20-25. view record
  • Thomas, Thomas. Dictionarium Linguae Latinae et Anglicanae, 1587. English linguistics, 1500-1800, no. 330. Menston: Scolar Press, 1972. view record
  • Cawdrey, Robert. A Table Alphabeticall of Hard Usual English Words (1604): The First English Dictionary. Gainesville: Scholars' Facsimiles and Reprints, 1966. view record