Item of the Day: Bailey's Dictionary (1736)
Full Title:
Dictionarium Britannicum: or a more compleat universal etymological English dictionary than any extant. By Nathan Bailey. Second Edition. London, T. Cox, 1736.
Title Page:
Or a more COMPLEAT
UNIVERSAL ETYMOLOGICAL
ENGLISH DICTIONARY
Than any EXTANT
CONTAINING
British, Teutonick, Dutch Low and High, Old Saxon, German, Danish, Swedish, Norman and Modern French, Italian, Spanish, Latin, Greek, Hebrew, &c. each in its proper Character.
A L S O
Explaining hard and technical Words, or Terms of Art, in all the ARTS, SCIENCES,
and MYSTERIES following. Together with ACCENTS directing to their proper Pronuntiation, shewing both the Orthography, and the Orthoepia of the English Tongue,
VIZ. IN
those Figures, not so well apprehended by verbal description.
L I K E W I S E
A Collection and Explanation of English PROVERBS; also of WORDS and PHRASES us'ed in our ancient Charters, Statutes, Writs, Old Records and Processes at Law.
A L S O
To which is added,
A Collection of Proper Names of Persons and Places in Great-Britain, &c with their Etymologies and Explications.
The Whole digested into an Alphabetical Order, not only for the Information of the Ignorant, but the Entertainment of the Curious; and also the Benefit of Artificers, Tradesmen, Young Students and Foreigners.
A WORK useful for such as would UNDERSTAND what they READ and HEAR, SPEAK what they MEAN, and WRITE true ENGLISH.
The SECOND EDITION with numberous ADDITIONS and IMPROVEMENTS.
By N. BAILEY,
Printed for T. COX, at the Lamb under the Royal-Exchange.
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