Thomas Blount, Glossographia or a Dictionary (1656)
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Date
1656
Author
Thomas Blount Note: 30/09/2005
Book title
Glossographia: Or A Dictionary, Interpreting all such Hard Words, whether Hebrew, Greek, Latin, Italian, Spanish, French, Teutonick, Belgick, British or Saxon; as are now used in our refined English Tongue. Also the Terms of Divinity, Law, Physick, Mathematicks, Heraldry, Anatomy, War, Musick, Architecture; and of several other Arts and Sciences Explicated. With Etymologies, Definitions, and Historical Observations on the same. Very useful for all such as desire to understand what they read
Publication place
London
Printer
Thomas Newcomb
Publisher
Humphrey Moseley and George Sawbridge
Transcription source
Scolar Press facsimile (National Library of Wales)
Text type
printed book
Genre
Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions
Subject area
- Greek
- hard words
- Latin
Language
headwords: English
explanations: English
other languages: Latin, Greek
explanations: English
explanations: English
other languages: Latin, Greek
explanations: English
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: headword
sample: Abecedary (abecedarius) one that teaches or learns the Cross-row, or the A, B, C.
sample: Abecedary (abecedarius) one that teaches or learns the Cross-row, or the A, B, C.
Alston
V, 45-52
Wing
B3334
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. 6172, 6179, 6182, 6186. view record
Other editions
1659: Wing B3334a (Alston V.46);
1661: Wing B3335, -35a (Alston V.49);
1670: Wing B3336 (Alston V.50);
1674: Wing B3337 (Alston V.51);
1681: Wing B3338 (Alston V.52)
1661: Wing B3335, -35a (Alston V.49);
1670: Wing B3336 (Alston V.50);
1674: Wing B3337 (Alston V.51);
1681: Wing B3338 (Alston V.52)
Facsimiles
Blount, Thomas. Glossographia. English linguistics, 1500-1800, no. 153. Menston: Scolar Press, 1969. view record
Criticisms
Bongaerts, Theo, ed. The Correspondence of Thomas Blount (1618-1679), A Recusant Antiquary. Amsterdam: n.p., 1978. view record
Schäfer, Jürgen. "The Working Methods of Thomas Blount." English Studies 59 (1978): 405-08. view record
Whitborne, J. B. "Thomas Blount, Author of `Fragmenta Antiquitatis,' etc.." Notes and Queries 8 (1853): 286. view record
Whitborne, J. B. "Thomas Blount." Notes and Queries 8.216 (1853 December 17): 603. view record
Osselton, Noel. "Vulgar Errors and Accepted Terms: Sir Thomas Browne and the Glossographia of 1656." Times and Tide: Writings Offered to Professor A. G. H. Bachrach. Ed. C. C. Barfoot. Leiden: Rijksuniversiteit te Leiden, 1980. 101-08. view record
Lancashire, Ian. "Samuel Johnson and Seventeenth-century Glossographers." International Journal of Lexicography 18.2 (2005 June): 157-71. view record
Schäfer, Jürgen. "The Working Methods of Thomas Blount." English Studies 59 (1978): 405-08. view record
Whitborne, J. B. "Thomas Blount, Author of `Fragmenta Antiquitatis,' etc.." Notes and Queries 8 (1853): 286. view record
Whitborne, J. B. "Thomas Blount." Notes and Queries 8.216 (1853 December 17): 603. view record
Osselton, Noel. "Vulgar Errors and Accepted Terms: Sir Thomas Browne and the Glossographia of 1656." Times and Tide: Writings Offered to Professor A. G. H. Bachrach. Ed. C. C. Barfoot. Leiden: Rijksuniversiteit te Leiden, 1980. 101-08. view record
Lancashire, Ian. "Samuel Johnson and Seventeenth-century Glossographers." International Journal of Lexicography 18.2 (2005 June): 157-71. view record
Sources
- Osselton, N. E. "Authenticating the Vocabulary: A Study in Seventeenth-century Lexicographical Practice." Lexikos 6 (1996): 215-32. view record
- 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. 37-47. view record
- Thomas, Thomas. Dictionarium Linguae Latinae et Anglicanae, 1587. English linguistics, 1500-1800, no. 330. Menston: Scolar Press, 1972. view record
- Osselton, N. E. "Distorting the Linguistic Record: Secondary Documentation in the Oxford English Dictionary." Understanding the Historiography of Linguistics: Problems and Projects. Ed. W. Hüllen. Münster: Nodus, 1990. view record
- Osselton, Noel. "Literary Words: Blount's Glossographia and Sir Thomas Browne." Chosen Words: Past and Present Problems for Dictionary Makers. Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 1995. 54-60. 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
