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A Dictionary of the English Language, sometimes published as Johnson's Dictionary, was published on 15 April 1755 and written by Samuel Johnson. [2] It is among the most influential dictionaries in the history of the English language. There was dissatisfaction with the dictionaries of the period, so in June 1746 a group of London booksellers ...
Before Samuel Johnson 's two-volume A Dictionary of the English Language, published in 1755 and considered the most authoritative and influential work of early English lexicography, there were other early English dictionaries: more than a dozen had been published during the preceding 150 years. This article lists the most significant ones.
The English dictionarie of 1623
Early Modern English. Dictionary. • Leme (Lexicons of Early Modern English) • A Table Alphabeticall, conteyning and teaching the true writing, and understanding of hard usuall English wordes, par Robert Crawdrey (1604) (+ text version) • A Table Alphabeticall (1617, 3 rd edition) It's the first English dictionary (120 pages, 3 000 words)
The English dictionarie of 1623. Responsibility. by Henry Cockeram, with a prefatory note by Chauncey Brewster Tinker. Imprint. New York, Huntington Press, 1930-. Physical description. v. double facsim. 19 cm.
Dec 20, 2022 · Edited by MARC Bot. import existing book. December 14, 2009. Edited by WorkBot. link works. April 1, 2008. Created by an anonymous user. Imported from Scriblio MARC record. The English dictionarie of 1623 by Henry Cockeram, 1930, Huntington Press edition, in English.
Other articles where Henry Cockeram is discussed: dictionary: From 1604 to 1828: …next work, in 1623, by Henry Cockeram, the first to have the word dictionary in its title: The English Dictionary; or, An Interpreter of Hard English Words. It added many words that have never appeared anywhere else—adpugne, adstupiate, bulbitate, catillate, fraxate, nixious, prodigity, vitulate, and so on ...
