Description: First English Dictionary 1604 : Robert Cawdrey's A Table Alphabeticall, Paperback by Cawdrey, Robert; Simpson, John (INT), ISBN 1851243887, ISBN-13 9781851243884, Brand New, Free shipping in the US
English is one of the most complicated languages to learn, and its constantly evolving vocabulary certainly doesn’t help matters. For centuries, men and women have striven to chronicle and categorize the expressions of the English language, and Samuel Johnson is usually thought to be their original predecessor. But that lineage is wrong: Robert Cawdrey published his Table Alphabeticall in 1604, 149 years before Johnson’s tome, and it is now republished here for the first time in over 350 years.
This edition, prepared from the sole surviving copy of the first printing, documents Cawdrey’s fascinating selection of 2,543 words and their first-ever definitions. Cawdrey subtitled his dictionary “for the benefit of Ladies, Gentlewomen, and other unskilled folk,” for his aim was not to create a comprehensive catalog, but rather an in-depth guide for the lesser educated who might not know the “hard usual English wordes, borrowed from the Hebrew, Greeke, Latine, or French.” Each entry reveals an intriguing facet of early modern life and the cultural mores of the time. There are familiar terms—“geometrie” was defined as “the art of measuring the earth,” and a “concubine” was described as a “harlot, or light huswife”—and amusingly idiomatic definitions: "prodigall" is "too riotous in spending," while "hecticke" is "inflaming the hart, and soundest parts of the bodie.”
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Book Title: First English Dictionary 1604 : Robert Cawdrey's A Table Alphabet
Number of Pages: 160 Pages
Publication Name: First English Dictionary 1604 : Robert Cawdrey's a Table Alphabeticall
Language: English
Publisher: Bodleian Library
Subject: Dictionaries, Europe / Great Britain / General
Item Height: 0.6 in
Publication Year: 2015
Features: New Edition
Type: Not Available
Item Weight: 6.1 Oz
Item Length: 7.7 in
Author: Robert Cawdrey
Subject Area: Référence, History
Item Width: 5 in
Format: Trade Paperback