The English dictionarie: or, An interpreter of hard English vvords Enabling as well ladies and gentlewomen, young schollers, clarkes, merchants, as also strangers of any nation, to the vnderstanding of the more difficult authors already printed in our language, and the more speedy attaining of an elegant perfection of the English tongue, both in reading, speaking and writing. Being a collection of the choisest words contained in the Table alphabeticall and English expositor, and of some thousands of words neuer published by any heretofore. By H.C. Gent.
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The English dictionarie: or, An interpreter of hard English vvords Enabling as well ladies and gentlewomen, young schollers, clarkes, merchants, as also strangers of any nation, to the vnderstanding of the more difficult authors already printed in our language, and the more speedy attaining of an elegant perfection of the English tongue, both in reading, speaking and writing. Being a collection of the choisest words contained in the Table alphabeticall and English expositor, and of some thousands of words neuer published by any heretofore. By H.C. Gent.
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Cockeram, Henry, fl. 1650.
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London :: Printed [by Eliot's Court Press] for Edmund Weauer, and are to be sold at his shop at the great north gate of Pauls Church,
1623.
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English language -- Dictionaries -- Early works to 1800.
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"The English dictionarie: or, An interpreter of hard English vvords Enabling as well ladies and gentlewomen, young schollers, clarkes, merchants, as also strangers of any nation, to the vnderstanding of the more difficult authors already printed in our language, and the more speedy attaining of an elegant perfection of the English tongue, both in reading, speaking and writing. Being a collection of the choisest words contained in the Table alphabeticall and English expositor, and of some thousands of words neuer published by any heretofore. By H.C. Gent." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A19044.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 14, 2025.
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Men that were foolish.
AChemon, onely delighted in all kinde of iniuries and outrages, caught by Hercules and hanged by the heeles on his Club.
Acilius Buta, one that pro∣digally and basely consu∣med all his estate.
Acessius, a sottish ship∣man, who deferring his voyage, was wont to say he stayed for a better Moone.
Caluision, and Coruinus, these could not remember the foure elements, and after a sicknes forgat their owne names.
Pamus, a foolish fellow, that hauing lost a small boate, sued euery one for it that he met withall.
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