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New general English dictionary [electronic resource] : Peculiarly calculated for the use and improve...

New general English dictionary [electronic resource] : Peculiarly calculated for the use and improve...

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New general English dictionary [electronic resource] : Peculiarly calculated for the use and improvement of such as are unacquainted with the learned languages. Wherein the difficult words, and technical terms made use of in anatomy, architecture, arithmetick, algebra, astronomy, botany, chymistry, divinity, gardening, grammar, hawking, heraldry, history, horsemanship, hunting, husbandry, law, logick, mathematicks, mechanicks, milit. affairs, musick, navigation, painting, poetry, rhetorick, sculpture, sur..., &c. not only fully explain'd, but accented on their proper syllables, to prevent a vicious pronunciation; and mark'd with initial letters, to denote the part of speech to which each word peculiarly belongs. To which is prefixed, compendions English grammar, with general rules for the ready formation of one part of speech from another; by the due application whereof, such as understand English only, may be able to write as correctly and elegantly, as those who have been some years, conversant in the Latin, Greek, &c. languages. Together with a supplement, of the proper names of the most noted [kin]gdoms, provinces, cities, towns, rivers, &c. throughout the known world. As also the most celebrated emperors, kings, queens, priests, poets, philosophers, generals, whether Jewish, Pagan, Mahometan, or Christian; but more especially such as are mentioned either in the Old or New Testament. The Whole alphabetically digested, and accented in the same manner, and for the same purpose, as the preceding; part; being collected for the use of such, as have last an imperfect idea of the English orthography. Originally begun by the Late Reverend Mr. Thomas Dyche, school-master at Strarford-le-Beau, author of The guide to the English tongue, the spelling dictionary &c. and now finish'd by William Pardon, gent. The fifth edition, with the addition of the several market towns of England and Wales; giving a general description of the places, their ... market-places, government, manufactures, number of representatives sent to Parliament, Distance from London, both in computed ad measured miles, &c.

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New general English dictionary [electronic resource] : Peculiarly calculated for the use and improvement of such as are unacquainted with the learned languages. Wherein the difficult words, and technical terms made use of in anatomy, architecture, arithmetick, algebra, astronomy, botany, chymistry, divinity, gardening, grammar, hawking, heraldry, history, horsemanship, hunting, husbandry, law, logick, mathematicks, mechanicks, milit. affairs, musick, navigation, painting, poetry, rhetorick, sculpture, sur..., &c. not only fully explain'd, but accented on their proper syllables, to prevent a vicious pronunciation; and mark'd with initial letters, to denote the part of speech to which each word peculiarly belongs. To which is prefixed, compendions English grammar, with general rules for the ready formation of one part of speech from another; by the due application whereof, such as understand English only, may be able to write as correctly and elegantly, as those who have been some years, conversant in the Latin, Greek, &c. languages. Together with a supplement, of the proper names of the most noted [kin]gdoms, provinces, cities, towns, rivers, &c. throughout the known world. As also the most celebrated emperors, kings, queens, priests, poets, philosophers, generals, whether Jewish, Pagan, Mahometan, or Christian; but more especially such as are mentioned either in the Old or New Testament. The Whole alphabetically digested, and accented in the same manner, and for the same purpose, as the preceding; part; being collected for the use of such, as have last an imperfect idea of the English orthography. Originally begun by the Late Reverend Mr. Thomas Dyche, school-master at Strarford-le-Beau, author of The guide to the English tongue, the spelling dictionary &c. and now finish'd by William Pardon, gent. The fifth edition, with the addition of the several market towns of England and Wales; giving a general description of the places, their ... market-places, government, manufactures, number of representatives sent to Parliament, Distance from London, both in computed ad measured miles, &c.

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London : for Richard Ware, at the Bible and Sun on Ludgate-Hill, MDCCXLVIII. [1748]

Date

MDCCXLVIII. [1748]

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74VKwDXq7Llg

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991018232119702626

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English

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[912]p. ; 8°.

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Publisher

London : for Richard Ware, at the Bible and Sun on Ludgate-Hill, MDCCXLVIII. [1748]

Place of Publication

England

Date Published

MDCCXLVIII. [1748]

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New general English dictionary [electronic resource] : Peculiarly calculated for the use and improvement of such as are unacquainted with the learned languages. Wherein the difficult words, and technical terms made use of in anatomy, architecture, arithmetick, algebra, astronomy, botany, chymistry, divinity, gardening, grammar, hawking, heraldry, h...

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Price in square brackets: (Price Six Shillings.)

Reproduction of original from Trinity College Library Watkinson Collection.

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ESTC T148819.

Alston, V, 148.

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Also available in microfilm held offsite at RAV/FM4/51.

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Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.

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991018232119702626