Elisha Coles, An English Dictionary (1677)
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Date
1677
Lexicographer
Elisha Coles Note: 30/09/2005
Book title
An English Dictionary: Explaining The difficult Terms that are used in Divinity, Husbandry, Physick, Phylosophy, Law, Navigation, Mathematicks, and other Arts and Sciences. Containing Many Thousands of Hard Words (and proper names of Places) more than are in any other English Dictionary or Expositor. Together With The Etymological Derivation of them from their proper Fountains, whether Hebrew, Greek, Latin, French, or any other Language. In a Method more comprehensive, than any that is extant
Publication place
London
Publisher
Peter Parker
Transcription source
EEBO/TCP transcript
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
explanations: English
explanations: English
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: headword
sample: Humling, o. sounding like a humble bee.
sample: Humling, o. sounding like a humble bee.
Alston
V.64
Wing
C 5071
Catalog
Kennedy 6183, 6189 (1685)
Other editions
1676: Wing C5070 (Alston V.63);
1684: Wing C5072 (Alston V.65);
1685: Wing C5073 (Alston V.66);
1692: Wing C5074 (Alston V.67);
1696: Wing C5075 (Alston V.68)
1684: Wing C5072 (Alston V.65);
1685: Wing C5073 (Alston V.66);
1692: Wing C5074 (Alston V.67);
1696: Wing C5075 (Alston V.68)
Facsimiles
Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlag, 1973. Coles, Elisha. An English Dictionary, 1676. English linguistics, 1500-1800, no. 268. Menston: Scolar Press, 1971. view record
Criticisms
- Gotti (1999): 49-59; Appendix 2, pp. 125-27
- S. H. Harlowe and others, Notes & Queries, series 4, 2: 325, 471-72, 510
- Staines, Noyes, and Stein (1991): 58-63.
- Coleman (2004): 176-77.
Harlowe, S. H., and others. "`Caught Napping': Elisha Coles's `Dictionary'." 4th series. Notes and Queries 2 (1868 November 14): 471-72. view record
Mander, Gerald. "The Identity of Elisha Coles." 3rd series. The Library 37.10 (1919 January): 34-44. view record
Osselton, N. E. "Alphabetisation in Monolingual English Dictionaries to Johnson." Lexicographers and their Works. Ed. Gregory James. Exeter: University of Exeter, 1989. 165-73. view record
Carlton, W. J. "The Identity of Elisha Coles." Notes and Queries 165 (1933 July 8): 11. view record
Bensly, Edward. "The Identity of Elisha Coles: Oxford, `the Eye of England'." Notes and Queries 165 (1933 July 22): 49. view record
G., J. A. "Elisha Coles's Dictionary." 4th series. Notes and Queries 2 (1868 December 19): 590. view record
Considine, John. "Elisha Coles in Context." Dictionaries: Journal of the Dictionary Society of North America 33 (2012): 42-57. view record
Sources
Phillips (1671), Richard Head, The Canting Academy (1673), John Ray, Collection of English Words Not Generally Used (1674; Starnes and Noyes)
- 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. 58-63. view record
