Gervase Markham, The Soldier's Grammar (1626)
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Date
1626
Author
Gervase Markham Note: 11/10/2005
Book title
The Sovldiers Grammar: Containing, The High, Necessarie, and most Curious Rules of the Art Militarie
Publication place
London
Publisher
William Shefford
Text type
printed book
Genre
Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions
Subject area
war
Summary
See chapters 1 and 5 for Greek-English terminology. Cf. his The souldiers accidence or An introduction into military discipline.
Language
headwords: Greek
explanations: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: headword
sample: The Gretians (as Aelian and his Schollars) doe reckon vp nineteene seuerall Great Motions, to which they giue especiall Names and Titles. The First, they call Clisis, which is a Turning to eyther Hand. [ 2] The Second, Metabole, which we call Turning about. [ 3] The Third, Perispasmos, which we call Wheeling about. [ 4] The Fourth, Epistrophe, which we call a Wheeling, eyther to the one, or the other Hand, but not entire, or about. [ 5] The Fifth, Anastrophe, which we call a Returning of the Wheele vnto the First Posture or Station where it stood before it was mooued, or Wheeled to eyther Hand. (p. 4)
sample: The Gretians (as Aelian and his Schollars) doe reckon vp nineteene seuerall Great Motions, to which they giue especiall Names and Titles. The First, they call Clisis, which is a Turning to eyther Hand. [ 2] The Second, Metabole, which we call Turning about. [ 3] The Third, Perispasmos, which we call Wheeling about. [ 4] The Fourth, Epistrophe, which we call a Wheeling, eyther to the one, or the other Hand, but not entire, or about. [ 5] The Fifth, Anastrophe, which we call a Returning of the Wheele vnto the First Posture or Station where it stood before it was mooued, or Wheeled to eyther Hand. (p. 4)
STC
17391-91.5
Other editions
British Library MS Stowe 438, "An Awakt Memorye," afterwards printed as this book
Facsimiles
Markham, Gervase. The Souldiers Exercise, in Three Bookes / Gervase Markham. The English experience, no. 677. Amsterdam and Norwood, N.J.: Theatrum Orbis Terrarum and W. J. Johnson, 1974. view record
