An English dictionary, explaining the difficult terms that are used in divinity, husbandry, physick, philosophy, law, navigation, mathematicks, and other arts and sciences. Containing many thousands of hard words, and proper names of places, more than are in any other English dictionary or expositor. Together with the etymological derivation of them from their proper fountains, whether Hebrew, Greek, Latin, French, or any other language. In a method more comprehensive than any that is extant
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Title: An English dictionary, explaining the difficult terms that are used in divinity, husbandry, physick, philosophy, law, navigation, mathematicks, and other arts and sciences. Containing many thousands of hard words, and proper names of places, more than are in any other English dictionary or expositor. Together with the etymological derivation of them from their proper fountains, whether Hebrew, Greek, Latin, French, or any other language. In a method more comprehensive than any that is extant
Classmark: Early Dictionaries B-1 COL
Creator(s): Coles, Elisha (1640?-1680)
Publisher: Printed for Peter Parker
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1692
Language: English
Size and medium: 342 unnumbered pages
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/232199
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991012708169705181
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First edition published in 1676.
Indexed in: Wing C5074.
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