George Dalgarno, Didascalocophus or the Deaf and Dumb Man's Tutor (1680)
Date
1680
Author
Book title
Didascalocophus Or The Deaf and Dumb mans Tutor, To which is added A Discourse of the Nature and number of Double Consonants. Both which Tracts being the first (for what the Author knows) that have been published upon either of the Subjects
Publication place
Oxford
Text type
printed book
Genre
Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions
Subject area
spelling
Word-group
type: undifferentiated
Word-entry
type: logical
sample: Schematology is divided into Typology or Grammatology, and Cheirology or Dactyrology. By Typology or Grammatology, I understand the impressing of permanent Figures upon solid and consisting matter, which may be done two wayes; either by the Pen or Hand, or by the impression of Stamps prepared for that use; which makes only an accidental difference between Grammatology and Typology. Cheirology or Dactylology, as the words import, is Interpretation by the transcient motions of the Fingers; which of all other wayes of Interpretation comes nearest to that of the Tongue. Haptology admitting of no Medium, not distinction of Act and Object, but being body to body, doth therefore admitt of no subdivision. Tho I will not warrant all these Terms from Acyrology; yet I am sure that they will both save me the labour of Periphrasis, and also from using words less proper.
sample: Schematology is divided into Typology or Grammatology, and Cheirology or Dactyrology. By Typology or Grammatology, I understand the impressing of permanent Figures upon solid and consisting matter, which may be done two wayes; either by the Pen or Hand, or by the impression of Stamps prepared for that use; which makes only an accidental difference between Grammatology and Typology. Cheirology or Dactylology, as the words import, is Interpretation by the transcient motions of the Fingers; which of all other wayes of Interpretation comes nearest to that of the Tongue. Haptology admitting of no Medium, not distinction of Act and Object, but being body to body, doth therefore admitt of no subdivision. Tho I will not warrant all these Terms from Acyrology; yet I am sure that they will both save me the labour of Periphrasis, and also from using words less proper.
Alston
III.ii.785
Wing
D129
Other editions
1692 (Alston III.ii.*786)
Modern editions
Dalgarno, David. George Dalgarno on Universal Language: The art of signs (1661), The deaf and dumb man's tutor (1680), and the unpublished papers . Eds. David Cram and Jaap Maat. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001.
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