Niels Hemmingsen, The Preacher, or Method of Preaching (1574)

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Date
1574
Author
Nicholas Heminge (alternate name for Niels Hemmingsen )
Translator
I. H. (alternate name for John Horsfall )
Book title
The Preacher, or Methode of preaching, written in Latine by Nicholas Hemminge, and translated into Englishe by I. H. Very necessarie for all those that by the true preaching of the word of God, labour to pull downe the Sinagoge of Sathan, and to buylde vp the Temple of God
Publication place
London
Publisher
Thomase Marshe
Transcription source
EEBO/TCP
Text type
printed book
Genre
Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions
Subject area
  • Bible
  • grammar
  • logic
  • rhetoric
Summary
The translator gives a list of untranslatable Latin terms in (a) the "Epistle to the Reader" (a3r-a5v; "Genus, differentia, species, adiuncta, exordium, enarratio, genus didascalicum, paraeneticum. &c.") and (b) a section, "Of definition" (e1r-e6v). The treatise, described as a Christian rhetoric, weaves logical definitions of some terms in interpretation into the prose discussion.
Language
headwords: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: logical
sample: The definition therfore wich the godlye preacher shall declare as true and immouable, must haue foure parts in the treatise, Exposition, Reason, Confirmation & conclusion. And there is two kindes of definitions, pertaining to a deuine, the one short & briefe, ye other copiouse & large, that is content with the kinde & with the difference." (e1)
STC
13065
Other editions
1576: STC 13066
Facsimiles
Hemmingsen, Niels. The Preacher, 1574. English linguistics, 1500-1800, no. 325 . Menston: Scolar Press, 1972. view record
Criticisms
Jones, Richard Foster. The Triumph of the English Language. London: Oxford University Press, 1953. 74-75 . view record