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Entick's new Latin-English dictionary, designed for the use of grammar schools, and private education: containing all the words and phrases proper for reading the classic authors in both languages. Accurately collected from the most approved Latin Authors. Accompanied with every Improvement to supply the Deficiencies of other Dictionaries, and to enable the Scholar to parse and construe each Word according to its various Interpretations by the best Authors in the English Tongue. A new edition, revised and augmented throughout by William Crakelt, M. A. Rector of Nursted and Ifield in Kent.
Entick, John, 1703?-1773.Date: MDCCLXXXVI. [1786]- Books
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The new pocket dictionary of the French and English languages, Containing All Words of general Use and authorized by the best Writers. Carefully compiled from the most approved Dictionaries French and English, particularly from that of the Royal Academy at Paris. By Thomas Nugent, LL.D. To which are added upwards of thirteen thousand words, besides a very useful supplement, containing the Names of the most remarkable Empires, Kingdoms, States, Islands, Provinces, Cities, Mountains, Seas, Gulphs, Straits, Rivers, &c. The Names of ancient and modern Nations; together with the Names of remarkable Men, Women, Surnames of Sovereigns, &c. both in French and English: which will prove of great Use to those who read or translate History, Geography, Mithology, Poetry, &c. and are not to be found in any other French and English Dictionaries now extant. By J. S. Charrier, Teacher of the French Language. ...
Nugent, Thomas, 1700?-1772.Date: 1781- Books
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A critical pronouncing dictionary and expositor of the English language. In which Not only the Meaning of every Word is clearly explained, and the Sound of every Syllable distinctly shown, but where Words are subject to different Pronunciations, the Authorities of our best Pronouncing Dictionaries are fully exhibited, the Reasons for each are at large displayed, and the preserable Pronunciation is pointed out. To which are prefixed, principles of English pronunciation; in which The Sounds of Letters, Syllables, and Words, are critically investigated, and systematically arranged; the Influence of the Greek and Latin Accent and Quantity on the Account and Quantity of the English, is thoroughly examined and clearly defined; and the Analogies of the Language are so fully shown as to lay the Foundation of a consistent and rational Pronunciation. Likewise rules to be observed by the natives of Scotland, Ireland, and London, for avoiding their respective Peculiarities; and directions to foreigners for acquiring a Knowledge of the Use of this Dictionary. the whole interspersfd with observations, etymological, critical, and grammatical. By John Walker, Author of elements of elocution, rhyming dictionary, melody of speaking delineated, &c. &c.
Walker, John, 1732-1807.Date: 1797- Books
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A new law-dictionary: containing the interpretation and definition of words and terms used in the law; and also the whole law and the practice thereof, Under all the Heads and Titles of the same. Together with Such Informations relating thereto, as Explain the History and Antiquity of the Law, and our Manners, Customs, and Original Government. Collected and Abstracted from All Dictionaries, Abridgments, Institutes, Reports, Year-Books, Charters, Registers, Chronicles, and Histories, Published to this Time. And fitted for the Use of Barristers, Students, and Practisers of the Law, Members of Parliament, and other Gentlemen, Justices of Peace, Clergymen, &c. The seventh edition. The Law-Proceedings being done into English, with Great Additions and Improvements, to this Time. To which is annexed, A Table of References to all the Arguments and Resolutions of the Lord Chief Justice Holt; In the several Volumes of the Reports. By Giles Jacob, gent.
Jacob, Giles, 1686-1744.Date: MDCCLVI. [1756]- Books
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Entick's new Latin-English dictionary, containing all the words and phrases proper for reading the classics in both languages, Accurately Collected From The Most Approved Latin Authors. To which is prefixed, a new English-Latin dictionary, Carefully Compiled From The Most Celebrated English Writers; Rendered In Classical Latin. Both Parts Comprising All That IS Most Valuable And Useful In Former Dictionaries. For The Use Of Grammar Schools And Private Education. A new edition, revised and corrected. By William Crakelt, A. M. Rector Of Nursted And Ifield, In Kent.
Entick, John, 1703?-1773.Date: MDCCXCII. [1792]- Books
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The complete system of the French language; or a Course of Grammatical Observations, wherein the Great Deficiencies of Former Grammars, and Even Dictionaries, are Supplied; The numerous Examples so fully illustrated, and the Phrases so properly selected, that a diligent Person, desirous of learning French, may, with very little other Assistance, be able to write it with the greatest Accuracy and Elegance, as well as speak it with a just Pronunciation, in much less time than heretofore. By Nicholas Salmon, Author of ̀̀a Footstep to the French Language;'' Which is an Introduction to the present Work.
Salmon, Nicholas.Date: [1788]- Books
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A catalogue of scarce and valuable books: Being the Libraries of several Gentlemen deceased, including the Physical Library of the late Doctor Alexander Irvine, and Duplicates of many very scarce Books, from one of the most capital Libraries in this Country. Consisting of about four thousand volumes in History, Antiquities, Voyages and Travels, Architecture, Mathematicks, Dictionaries, Natural History, Divinity, Law, A most elegant Collection of the Greek and Latin Classics, And a great Variety of the best French and Italian Authors: Which will begin to be sold by auction, In Pitfoddels' Hall, Castlestreet, Aberdeen, On Monday February 19, 1781. The Books in general are in good Condition, many of them elegantly bound, and may be seen Three Days before the Auction. Catalogues to be had (gratis) at the Shop of A. Angus and son, Booksellers, Aberdeen, or of J. Walker, Auctioneer; who will carefully execute Commissions from the Country, or for those in Town who cannot attend.
Alexander Angus and Son (Aberdeen, Scotland)Date: 1781]- Books
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A catalogue of uncommon and valuable books: consisting Of almost every Thing that is Curious in Divinity, Philosophy, Physick, Mathematicks, &c. Also the History, Antiquity, and Parliamentary Affairs of Great-Britain and Ireland. Together with the History of most other Countries. Likewise Books of Sculpture and Medals; with several Dictionaries and Lexicons, and other Parts of Polite Literature, in Greek, Latin, English, Italian, French and Spanish. And will be Sold by auction, At the Bedford Coffee-House in the Great Piazza, Covent-Garden, on Wednesday the Fourth of March 1729/30, beginning every Evening at Five a Clock exactly; By Harmen Noorthouck, Bookseller, In the Great Piazza, Covent-Garden. N. B. The Books may be view'd two Days before the Time of Sale, and every Day of Sale to the Time of Sale. Catalogues are given gratis at the Temple-Exchange Coffee-House in Fleet-Street; Slaughter's Coffee-House in St. Martin's-Lane; Forest's Coffee-House at Charing-Cross; at H. Noorthouck's in the Piazza Covent-Garden; and at the Place of sale.
Noorthouck, Harmen.Date: 1730]- Books
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The new Latin and English dictionary, designed for the use of grammar schools, and private education: containing all the words and phrases proper for reading the classic authors in both languages. Accurately collected from the most approved Latin Authors; Accompanied with every Improvement to supply the Deficiencies of other Dictionaries, and to enable the Scholar to parse and construe each Word according to its various Interpretation by the best Authors in the English Tongue. By John Entick, M. A. Editor of Schrevelius's Greek Lexicon; Littleton and Cole's Latin Dictionaries; and Author of the New Spelling Dictionary, &c.
Entick, John, 1703?-1773.Date: MDCCLXXXII. [1782]- Books
Dictionary of dictionaries / Thomas Kabdebo.
Kabdebo, Thomas.Date: [1992], ©1992- Books
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General English and French dictionary : newly composed from the English dictionaries of Johnson, Webster, Richardson, etc., from the French dictionaries of the French Academy, Laveaux, Boiste, Bescherelle, etc., and the special dictionaries and works of both languages.
Spiers, A. (Alexander), 1807-1869.Date: 1850- Books
A history of foreign-language dictionaries / Robert L. Collison.
Collison, Robert L., 1914-1989.Date: 1982- Books
Encyclopaedic visions : scientific dictionaries and enlightenment culture / Richard Yeo.
Yeo, Richard R., 1948-Date: 2001- Books
A guide to foreign language grammars and dictionaries / edited by A.J. Walford.
Date: 1967- Books
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General French and English dictionary, newly composed from the French dictionaries of the French Academy ... / from the English dictionaries of Johnson, Webster ... etc.
Spiers, A. (Alexander), 1807-1869Date: 1849- Books
Discovery in haste : English medical dictionaries and lexicographers 1547 to 1796 / Roderick McConchie.
McConchie, R. W. (Roderick W.)Date: [2019]- Books
Biographical dictionaries and related works : an international bibliography of collective biographies ... / Robert B. Slocum.
Slocum, Robert B.Date: 1967- Books
Renaissance dictionaries : English-Latin and Latin-English / by DeWitt T. Starnes.
Starnes, DeWitt T. (DeWitt Talmage), 1888-1967.Date: 1954- Books
Alphabetical lives : scientific biography in historical dictionaries and encyclopaedias / Richard Yeo.
Yeo, RichardDate: 1996- Books
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A new and compendious dictionary. French and English. Drawn from the best modern dictionaries, and politest writers, and contracted into a manual. By Mr. Ozell.
Ozell, John, -1743.Date: MDCCXVII. [1717]- Books
Biographical dictionaries and related works : an international bibliography of more than 16,000 collective biographies ... / Robert B. Slocum, editor.
Slocum, Robert B.Date: [1986], ©1986- Books
A short-title list of subject dictionaries of the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries : as aids to the history of ideas / [Giorgio Tonelli].
Tonelli, Giorgio, 1941-Date: 1971- Books
Classical myth and legend in Renaissance dictionaries : a study of Renaissance dictionaries in their relation to the classical learning of contemporary English writers / by DeWitt T. Starnes and Ernest William Talbert.
Starnes, DeWitt T. (DeWitt Talmage), 1888-1967.Date: [1973, ©1955]- Books
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A General dictionary of the English language, compiled with the greatest care from the best authors and dictionaries now extant. By a society of gentlemen.
Date: MDCCLXVIII. [1768]- Books
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A classical dictionary of Greek and Roman biography, mythology and geography / based on the larger dictionaries by Sir William Smith ; revised throughout and in part rewritten by G.E. Marindin.
Date: 1899