The English dictionarie: or, An interpreter of hard English vvords Enabling as well ladies and gentlewomen, young schollers, clarkes, merchants, as also strangers of any nation, to the vnderstanding of the more difficult authors already printed in our language, and the more speedy attaining of an elegant perfection of the English tongue, both in reading, speaking and writing. Being a collection of the choisest words contained in the Table alphabeticall and English expositor, and of some thousands of words neuer published by any heretofore. By H.C. Gent.
- Title
- The English dictionarie: or, An interpreter of hard English vvords Enabling as well ladies and gentlewomen, young schollers, clarkes, merchants, as also strangers of any nation, to the vnderstanding of the more difficult authors already printed in our language, and the more speedy attaining of an elegant perfection of the English tongue, both in reading, speaking and writing. Being a collection of the choisest words contained in the Table alphabeticall and English expositor, and of some thousands of words neuer published by any heretofore. By H.C. Gent.
- Author
- Cockeram, Henry, fl. 1650.
- Publication
- London :: Printed [by Eliot's Court Press] for Edmund Weauer, and are to be sold at his shop at the great north gate of Pauls Church,
- 1623.
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- Subject terms
- English language -- Dictionaries -- Early works to 1800.
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"The English dictionarie: or, An interpreter of hard English vvords Enabling as well ladies and gentlewomen, young schollers, clarkes, merchants, as also strangers of any nation, to the vnderstanding of the more difficult authors already printed in our language, and the more speedy attaining of an elegant perfection of the English tongue, both in reading, speaking and writing. Being a collection of the choisest words contained in the Table alphabeticall and English expositor, and of some thousands of words neuer published by any heretofore. By H.C. Gent." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A19044.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 4, 2024.
Contents
- title page
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TO THE RIGHT HO∣nourable, Sir
Richard Boyle, Knight, LordBoyle, Baron ofYoughall, ViscountDun∣garuan, Earle ofCork, and one of his Maie∣sties most Honourable Priuie Councell of the Kingdome ofIreland, &c. - A Premonition from the Author to the Reader.
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To his very good friend, Master
Henry Cockeram, on his Vo∣cabulary. - To my industrious friend, the Au∣thor of this English Dictionarie, Mr. HENRY COCKRAM of EXETER.
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To the Reader on this Verball of his esteemed friend, Master
Henry C ofcke∣ram Exeter. -
To the Reader on this Vocabulary of his good friend, Master
Henry Cocke∣ram ofExeter. -
To my very good friend, Master
Co∣keram, Author of this worke. -
To his industrious friend, Master
Henry Cockeram. -
To his worthily respected friend, Master
Henry Cockeram. - THE FIRST PART OF THE ENGLISH DICTIONARY.
- THE SECOND PART OF THE ENGLISH DICTIONARY.
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THE THIRD PART TREA∣TING OF GODS AND GOD∣desses, Men and Women, Boyes and Maides,
Gi∣ants and Diuels, Birds and Beasts, Monsters and Serpents, Wells and Riuers, Hearbs, Stones, Trees, Dogges, Fishes, and the like. - Of Beasts.
- Of Birdes.
- Of Boyes.
- Of Cities.
- The Destinies.
- Deuils.
- Dogges.
- Fayries.
- Fishes.
- Flyes.
- Furies.
- Giants.
- Gods.
- Goddesses.
- The 3. Graces.
- Short winged Hawkes.
- Long winged Hawkes.
- Hearbs.
- The Hesperides.
- Hills & Mountaines.
- Horses.
- Iles.
- Maides that died for loue.
- Maides chaste and beautifull.
- Maides that were Transformed.
- Men that were Cap∣taines.
- Men that were Empe∣rours.
- Men that were Kings.
- Men that were Tyrants.
- Men that were de∣formed
- Men that were elo∣quent.
- Men that were Flat∣terers.
- Men that were foolish.
- Men Grauers and Caruers.
- Men vext in Hell.
- Men that were In∣uenters.
- Men Iudges in Hell.
- Men that were Gluttons.
- Men that were Musitians.
- Men that were Painters.
- Men that were Phi∣losophers.
- Men that were Phi∣sitians.
- Men that are Poets.
- Men that were Sooth∣sayers.
- Men that were Theeues.
- Men that were Wrast∣lers.
- Men of sundrie qua∣lities.
- Mermaides or Sy∣rens.
- Monsters.
- The nine Muses.
- Nimphs of the Mea∣dowes.
- Nymphes of the Sea.
- Nymphs of the Woods.
- People of sundry qua∣lities.
- Serpents.
- The 7. Starres.
- Or after some, called
- Stones.
- Townes.
- Trees.
- Wells and Riuers.
- Women that were shameles.
- Women that were transformed.
- Women that were chaste.
- Women Queenes and queanes.
- Women excelling for loue to their Husbands.
- Warlike Women.
- Women of sundrie qualities.
- Woods.