William Salesbury, The Battery of the Pope's Botereulx, Commonly called the High Altar (1550)
Date
1550
Author
William
Salesbury
Note: 13/10/2005
Book title
The baterie of the Popes Botereulx, commonlye called the high Altare
Publication place
London
Printer
Robert Crowley
Transcription source
EEBO
Text type
printed book
Genre
Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions
Subject area
- Bible
- etymology
Summary
An analysis of the etymology of the word "altar" and related "straunge" papist terms. The term "botereulx" may be a French term related to "bottreaux" (fritters?) or an allusion to Bottreaux Castle near Boscastle, Cornwall, evidently in ruins by the sixteenth century.
Word-group
type: topical
Word-entry
type: gloss
sample: Neuertheles ye do nowe perceiue bi the Etimology and true exposition of the aboue said Hebrue and greke words: that thei be so nighe of kinne in betokening, and so like in speakinge in those languages, as be these thre wordes in Englishe: House, husbande, & husbandry. (a8v)
sample: Neuertheles ye do nowe perceiue bi the Etimology and true exposition of the aboue said Hebrue and greke words: that thei be so nighe of kinne in betokening, and so like in speakinge in those languages, as be these thre wordes in Englishe: House, husbande, & husbandry. (a8v)
STC
21613
