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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

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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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