Thomas Blount, NOMO-ΛEΘIKON: A Law-dictionary (1670)

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Date

1670

Lexicographer

Thomas Blount Note: 30/09/2005

Book title

NOMO-ΛEΘIKON [Nomo-lexikon]: A Law-Dictionary. Interpreting such difficult and obscure Words and Terms As are found either in Our Common or Statute, Ancient or Modern Lawes: With References to the several Statutes, Records, Registers, Law-books, Charters, Ancient Deeds, and Manuscripts, wherein the Words are used: And Etymologies, where they properly occur

Publication place

London

Printer

Thomas Newcomb

Publisher

John Martin and Henry Herringman

Text type

printed book

Genre

Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions

Subject area

law

Language

headwords: English
explanations: English
other languages: Latin French Saxon
explanations: English

Word-group

type: alphabetical

Word-entry

type: headword
sample: Misnomer, (compounded of the Fr. Mes, which in composition alwayes signifies amisse, and nomer, i. nominare,) the using one name for another, a mis-terming, or mis-naming. (x3v)

Alston

XVIII.II.72

Wing

B 3340

Catalog

Kennedy 8583; Arber's Term cat. II, 351

Other editions

1691: Wing B3341 (Alston XVIII.II.73)

Criticisms

Osselton, N. E. "English Specialized Lexicography in the Late Middle Ages and in the Renaissance." Fachsprachen. Languages for Special Purposes. Eds. L. Hoffman and others. 2 vols. Vol. II. Berlin: de Gruyter, 1998. 2458-65. 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