Anonymous, An Essay towards a New English Dictionary (ca 1600 - ca 1700)

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Date

1600ca 1700ca

Author

Anonymous

Book title

An essay towards a new English dictionary, wherein the terms of art are cast together, as likewise words and phrases of the same import, so that every reader may without trouble find words and expressions proper to his subject

Transcription source

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Text type

manuscript

Genre

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

Subject area

synonyms

Summary

A dictionary of synonyms listed in an antiquarian book-sale catalogue of Percy Dobell (no. 18, Nov. 1922).

Extent

1704 pages

Word-group

type: alphabetical

Word-entry

type: headword

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. 9731. view record