John Cotgrave, Wit's Interpreter (1655)
Date
1655
Author
Book title
Wits Interpreter, The English Parnassus. Or, A sure Guide to those Admirable Accomplishments that compleat our English Gentry, in the most acceptable Qualifications of Discourse, or Writing. In which briefly the whole Mystery of those pleasing Witchcrafts of Eloquence and Love are made easie in the following Subjects. I. The Art of Reasoning, A new Logick. 2. Theatre of Court-ship, Accurate Complements. 3. The Labyrinth of Fancies, New Experiments and Inventions. 4. Apollo and Orpheus severall Love-songs, Epigrams, Drolleries, and other Verses. 5. Cyprian Goddess, Description of Beauty. 6. The Muses Elizium, severall Poeticall Fictions. 7. The perfect Inditer, Letters Ala-mode. 8. Cardinal Richeleiu's Key to his manner of writing of Letters by Cyphers. As also an Alphabeticall Table of the first Devisers of Sciences and other Curiosities; All which are collected with Industry and Care, for the benefit and delight of those that love ingenious Enterprises
Publication place
London
Publisher
N. Brooke
Text type
printed book
Genre
Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions
Subject area
logic
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: headword
sample: A Word is a Voice and instituted to signifie somthing, no part therof when it is separate, or severally taken, being able to signifie any thing; as in the word Heaven, neither Hea, nor ven, by themselves are significant. (b1r)
sample: A Word is a Voice and instituted to signifie somthing, no part therof when it is separate, or severally taken, being able to signifie any thing; as in the word Heaven, neither Hea, nor ven, by themselves are significant. (b1r)
Venus. She was the daughter of Jupiter, She was begot of Cœlus his Testicles (which Saturn cut off) and the Sea froth; She was the Goddesse of love and beauty. (p. 121)
Alston
III.ii.772; VII.53
Wing
C6370
Other editions
1662: Wing C6371 (Alston III.ii.773; VII.54);
1671: Wing C6372 (Alston III.ii.774; VII.55)
1671: Wing C6372 (Alston III.ii.774; VII.55)
