Full Title: An Essay Towards a Real Character, And a Philosophical Language. By John Wilkins . . . London: Printed for A. Gellibrand, and for John Martin Printer to the Royal Society, 1668.
TO THE
READER.
It may perhaps be expected by some, that I should give an account of my ingaging [sic] in a Work of this [...]
From BAILEY:
A CRI’TICK [critique, F. critice, It. and Sp. criticus, L. of χριτιχος, Gr.] one skilled in criticism, a profound scholar, a nice censurer.
From JOHNSON:
CRI’TICK. n. s. [χριτιχος]
1. A man skilled in the art of judging of literature; a man able to distinguish the faults and beauties of writing.
This settles truer ideas in men’s minds of several things, [...]
From BAILEY:
To BECOME [of be and cpeman, Sax. to please, of bequemen, G. to adapt or make fit, or bequem, G. fit, or of bekommen, G. to thrive or agree with] to befit, to adorn; also to be made or done.
From JOHNSON:
To BECO’ ME. v. n. pret. I became; comp. pret. I have become. [from [...]
Full Title: The New World of Words: or, Universal English Dictionary. Containing An Account of the Original or Proper Sense, and Various Significations of all Hard Words derived from other Languages, viz. Hebrew, Arabick, Syriack, Greek, Latin, Italian, French, Spanish, British, Saxon, Danish, Dutch, &c. as now made use of in our English Tongue. Together [...]
Full Title: A Letter to the Honorable John Pickering, on the Subject of his Vocabulary; or, Collection of Words and Phrases, Supposed to be Peculiar to the United States of America. By Noah Webster. Boston: Published by West and Richardson, 1817.
To The
Honorable
John Pickering.
Sir,
When I first read your Vocabulary, or Collection of Words and Phrases, supposed [...]
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:
DICTIONARIUM BRITANNICUM:
Or a more COMPLEAT
UNIVERSAL ETYMOLOGICAL
ENGLISH DICTIONARY
Than any EXTANT
CONTAINING
Not only the Words and their Explication; but their Etymologies fron the Antient
British, Teutonick, Dutch Low and High, Old Saxon, German, Danish, Swedish, [...]
Full Title:
The Field of Mars: being an Alphabetical Digestion of the Principal Naval and Military Engagements, in Europe, Asia, Africa, and America, Particularly of Great Britain and her Allies, from the Ninth Century to the Present Period. Selected from the Best Historians and Journalists, and Adjusted from the Greatest Authority. Interspersed with concise Descriptions of [...]
Full Title:
An American Dictionary of the English Language: Intended to Exhibit, I. The origin, affinities and primary signification of English words, as far as they have been ascertained. II. The genuine orthography and pronunciation of words, according to general usage, or to just principles of analogy. III. Accurate and discriminating definitions, with numerous authorities and [...]
Full Title:
A Dictionary of the English Language: in which the Words are Deduced from their Originals, and Illustrated in their Different Significations by Examples from the Best Writers. To which are Prefixed, a History of the Language, and an English Grammar. By Samuel Johnson, LL.D. In Two Volumes. The Sixth Edition.
Printed in London for J.F. [...]
Full Title:
A Short Dictionary of the most Universal Language of the Savages. [Short Dictionary of the Algonkin Language]
Bound with The Late Regulations respecting the British Colonies on the Continent of America considered, in a Letter from a Gentleman in Philadelphia to his Friend in London. / The Late Occurrences in North America, and Policy of [...]
