John Newton, An Introduction to the Art of Rhetoric (1671)
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Date
1671
Author
John Newton Note: 12/10/2005
Lexicon title
An Alphabetical Table in which the Tropes and Figures which are of a Greek Original are interpreted and explained
Book title
An Introduction To The Art Of Rhetorick. Composed for the benefit of young Schollars and others, who have not opportunity of being instructed in the Latine tongue; and is very helpful to understand the figurative expressions in the holy Scriptures
Publication place
London
Printer
E. T. and R. H.
Publisher
Thomas Passenger
Transcription source
EEBO/TCP transcript (British Library)
Text type
printed book
Genre
Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions
Subject area
rhetoric
Language
headwords: English
explanations: English, Greek
explanations: English, Greek
explanations: English, Greek
explanations: English, Greek
Extent
79-85
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: headword
sample: A Case is a Question confined to persons and times, in which a particular inquiry is made concerning the Hypothesis or matter in dispute; as, whether it be fit for England to wage War with the Dutch. (p. 2)
Hysterologia, ὐσερολογία, dictio præpostera, a præposterous speech, when that is spoken last which according to order ought to have been first, it is otherwise called ὕσερον ωρότρο, postremum primum, the last first; derived from ὒσερος postremus the last or hindmost, and λόρος verbum a word or speech. (p. 82)
sample: A Case is a Question confined to persons and times, in which a particular inquiry is made concerning the Hypothesis or matter in dispute; as, whether it be fit for England to wage War with the Dutch. (p. 2)
Hysterologia, ὐσερολογία, dictio præpostera, a præposterous speech, when that is spoken last which according to order ought to have been first, it is otherwise called ὕσερον ωρότρο, postremum primum, the last first; derived from ὒσερος postremus the last or hindmost, and λόρος verbum a word or speech. (p. 82)
Alston
VI.93
Wing
N1065
