W. T., Lily, Improved, Corrected, and Explained (1696)
Date
1696
Author
Book title
Lily, Improved, Corrected, and Explained; With The Etymological Part Of The Common Accidence
Publication place
London
Publisher
R. Bentley
Text type
printed book
Genre
Grammars
Subject area
- grammar
- Latin
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: headword
sample: Q. Now comes nihil to be a Noun when it signifies nothing?
A. Tho' nihil signifies nothing, yet it is a Noun, because it is not meant properly nothing, but a thing of no value, having the name of hilium, the black in the top of a Bean; as, nihil or nihilum, not so much as the black in a Bean. In Grammar therefore we are to consider Words, not Things. (p. 3)
sample: Q. Now comes nihil to be a Noun when it signifies nothing?
A. Tho' nihil signifies nothing, yet it is a Noun, because it is not meant properly nothing, but a thing of no value, having the name of hilium, the black in the top of a Bean; as, nihil or nihilum, not so much as the black in a Bean. In Grammar therefore we are to consider Words, not Things. (p. 3)
Alston
XVI.549
Wing
L2263
