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"Intelligence" is not necessarily "new", nor indeed is "News:" in the oldest dictionary I possess, Baret's _Alvearie_, 1573,
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Baret's 'Alvearie or Triple Dictionarie,' 1573, and
The Book-Hunter at Home P. B. M. Allan
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Between the dates of the _Abecedarium_ and the _Alvearie_, Peter
The evolution of English lexicography James Augustus Henry Murray 1876
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Baret's _Alvearie_ of 1573 has been justly styled 'one of the most quaint and charming of all the early Dictionaries.'
The evolution of English lexicography James Augustus Henry Murray 1876
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Of later English-Latin dictionaries two deserve passing mention: the _Abecedarium_ of Richard Huloet or Howlet, a native of Wisbech, which appeared in the reign of Edward VI, in 1552, and the Alvearie of John Baret, Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, published under Elizabeth in 1573.
The evolution of English lexicography James Augustus Henry Murray 1876
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_Alvearie_, and other works of the sixteenth century, to render
The evolution of English lexicography James Augustus Henry Murray 1876
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_Alvearie_ we find "_Ribaudrie_, vilanie in actes or wordes, filthiness, uncleanness" -- "A _ribaudrous_ and filthie tongue, os obscoenum et impudicum:" in Minsheu, _ribaudrie_ and _ribauldrie_, which is the prevailing orthography of the word, and indicates its sound and derivation from the French, rather than from the Italian _ribalderia_.
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_ Baret’s Alvearie, 1580.] [Footnote 12: A Cannell or gutter.
Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867
alexz commented on the word Alvearie
An Alvearie was a multi language dictionary (English/French/Latin/Greek) by John Baret
The alvearie name apparently comes from the term 'beehive' as his students compiled the book.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Baret
September 24, 2015