John Worlidge, Systema Agriculturae (1669)

Full Text
EEBO/TCP
Date
1669
Author
John Worlidge Note: 15/10/2005
Lexicon title
Dictionarium Rusticum; Or, The Interpretations and Significations of several Rustick Terms, &c.
Book title
Systema Agriculturae Being The Mystery of Husbandry Discovered and laid Open
Publication place
London
Printer
T. Johnson
Publisher
Samuel Speed
Transcription source
EEBO (Bodleian Library)
Text type
printed book
Genre
Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions
Subject area
agriculture
Language
headwords: English
explanations: English
other languages: Latin
explanations: English
Extent
266-78
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: headword
sample: Ablactation is one of the ways of Grafting, that is, weaning the Cion by degrees from its Mother, being not wholly to be cut there-from, till it be firmly united to the Stock, on which it is grafted.
Alston
XVII.I.276
Wing
W 3598
Catalog
Kennedy 8511, 8513
Other editions
1675: Wing W3599 (Alston XVII.I.278);
1675: Wing W3597A (Alston XVII.I.279);
1677: Wing W3603 (London: Thomas Burrel and William Hensman);
1681: Wing W3600A (Alston XVII.I.279; 317-34);
1681: Wing W3600 (Alston XVII.I.280);
1682;
1687: Wing W3601 (Alston XVII.I.281);
1688;
1697: Wing W3602 (Alston XVII.I.282);
1698: Wing W3602A (Alston XVII.I.283)
Facsimiles
New York: Garland, 1982. SB 453.3 W7W67 1982 Gerstein
Modern editions
Old Country and Farming Words. Ed. James Britten. English Dialect Society, 1880. 73-92.
Criticisms
Manfred Görlach, New Studies (1995): 96-97
Bately, Janet M. "Ray, Worlidge, and Kersey's Revision of The New World of English Words." Anglia 85 (1967): 1-14. view record
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