- Herefordshire, at the age of sixty-one. His prin****l
works include Glossographia; or, a
dictionary interpreting the hard
words of
whatsoever language...
- wholesom." When published, the
Glossographia was the
largest dictionary in English.
Almost twice as
large as the
Glossographia and
containing many common...
- term
cosmology was
first used in
English in 1656 in
Thomas Blount's
Glossographia, and in 1731
taken up in
Latin by
German philosopher Christian Wolff...
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Thomas Blount,
Glossographia Anglicana Nova: Or, A Dictionary,
Interpreting Such Hard
Words of whatever...
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Definition of
diaphragm in Blount's 1707
Glossographia Anglicana Nova...
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James and John Knapton, et al. p. 191. Anon (1707). "Shammy Leather".
Glossographia Anglicana Nova; Or, A
Dictionary Interpreting Such Hard
Words of Whatever...
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error of
aclides (see aklys).
Thomas Blount's 1707
English dictionary Glossographia Anglicana Nova
defined "whorlbat" as a kind of
Gauntlet with Straps...
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meaning a
potential source of harm. This
definition comes from Blount's "
Glossographia" (1661) and was the main
definition in the OED 1st (1914) and 2nd (1989)...
- "honorableness"),
among the 11,000 hard or
unusual words in his 1656
Glossographia, the
largest English dictionary at the time. The
entry was
quoted by...
-
described the
history of the
dictionary with his "English Expositor".
Glossographia by
Thomas Blount,
published in 1656,
contains more than 10,000 words...
