A copious dictionary in three parts
Subtitle: I. The English before the Latin, enriched with about ten thousand words more then any former dictionary contains. II. The Latin before the English, with correct and plentifull etymological derivations, philological observations, and phraseological explications. III. The proper names of persons, places, and other things necessary to the understanding of historians and poets : to which are adjoyned, a table of authours' names at large, which in this book are made use of, or mentioned and also some lesser tractates : the whole being a comprisal of Thomasius and Rider's foundations, Holland's and Holyoak's superstructure and improvements : together with amendments and enlargements very considerable for number and nature, promoted and carried on by a diligent search into, and perusal of several other dictionaries, and many authours ancient and modern, rendring this work the most compleat and usefull of any in this kind yet extant, as the preface doth particularly declare, and the book it self will more fully evidence ...
By: by the care and industry of Francis Gouldman, M.A.
Contributors: Robertson, William, -1686?; Scattergood, Antony, 1611-1687
Edition: And in this fourth edition there are many thousand words more added / by the skill and pains of Dr. Scattergood.
Publisher: Printed by John Hayes, printer to the university
Published: 1678
Place of publication: Cambridge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1496
Subjects: Latin language; Latin; Names; English; Dictionaries; Early works to 1800; English language
Notes: "Dictionarium etymologicum, philologicum, phraseologicumque" has special t.p. with imprint: Cantabrigiae : Ex officina Joann. Hayes ..., anno MDCLXXVIII [1678].

"Dictionarium historico-geographico-poeticum" has special t.p.

"In the precedent edition (besides many other additions) the most textual, usual and proper Hebrew roots and derivatives, added to the simple theams and compounds of the Latin, throughout the whole work, are inserted by W. Robertson, A.M."

Signatures: (a)⁴ a-t⁸ u⁴ chi² A-3P⁸ 3Q⁴ 4A-4M⁸ (-4M7-4M8).

First gathering "a" is enclosed by square brackets.

Includes index.

Also contains dissertation, Greek vocabulary list, and table of coin weights.

LC copy imperfect: last leaf wanting.

ESTC (BLAISE) R26745

Wing (2nd ed.) G1446