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  • (OED, s.v. "omega," which quotes John Baret's An alvearie or triple (quadruple) dictionarie, 1573, 1580). close window

    Notes on 'Golgonooza Text' 2005

  • [60] In preparation for the voyage, we are told by González de Mendoza, whose famous and popular history of China first printed in 1585 derives in a great measure from information brought back by Rada, that Rada "began with great care & studie to learne that language [Chinese], the which he learned in few daies: & did make thereof a dictionarie."

    Doctrina Christiana The first book printed in the Philippines, Manila, 1593. Anonymous 1951

  • Holbecke, a monke of Ramsie, well séene in the Hebrue toong, and wrote thereof a dictionarie; Iohn Colton, archbishop of Ardmach; Iohn Marrie, so called of a village in Yorkeshire where he was borne, a Carmelite of

    Chronicles (3 of 6): Historie of England (1 of 9) Henrie IV Raphael Holinshed

  • A dictionarie in Spanish and English/first published into the English tongue by Ric.

    Inventory of Robert Carter's Estate, November [1733] 1733

  • A dictionarie in Spanish and English, first published.

    The Library of William Congreve William Congreve 1699

  • Pembroke Lord Chamberlaine to the Kings most excellent maiestie and one of his royal counsell of state (if at my death he shall then be living) all my Italian, French and Spanish bookes, as well printed as unprinted, being in number about Three hundred and fortie, namely my new and perfect dictionary, as also my tenne dialogues in Italian and English and my unbound volume of divers written collections and rapsodies, most heartilie entreating his Honorable Lordshippe (as hee once promised mee) to accept of them as a sign and token of my service and affection to his honor and for my sake to place them in his library, either at Wilton or else at Baynards Castle at London, humbly desiring him to give way and favourable assistance that my dictionarie and dialogues may bee printed and the profitt therof accrud unto my wife.

    Shakespeare's Lost Years in London, 1586-1592 Arthur Acheson 1897

  • "... all the words we use in our English tong, whether naturall or incorporate ... into one dictionarie";

    VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XX No 1 1991

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