John Sergeant, The Mystery of Rhetoric Unveiled (1657)

Date

1665

Author

John Smith(alternate name for John Sergeant ) Note: He publishes this as John Smith.

Book title

The Mysterie of Rhetorique Unvail'd, Wherein above 130 The Tropes and Figures are severally derived from the Greek into English, together with lively Definitions ...

Edition

2nd edn.

Publication place

London

Printer

E. Cotes

Publisher

George Eversden

Transcription source

EEBO/TCP

Text type

printed book

Genre

Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions

Subject area

rhetoric

Summary

(a) "The Alphabetical Table, or a Synopsis, whereby the Reader may on a sudden, view all the Tropes and Figures, or find out which of them he principally aims at; where, next after the Trope, or Figure, is the genuine Signification of the word in English, then a brief description of each Trope and Figure, and lastly a referring to the Pages, where they are largely Explained and Exemplified: Note likewise that some words which are neither Tropes, nor Figures, yet, being abstruse words, and incident to the unvailing divers of the Figures, are here inserted, and the Reader referred to the pages, where they are also described and exemplified"; and (b) "A brief Explication of the terms used in Rhetorique, some being borrowed from Logick, and proposed in a Greek, and therefore to most in an unknown dresse"

Extent

(a) A8r-a7r; (b) a7v-a8v

Word-group

type: alphabetical

Word-entry

type: headword
sample: ÆNigma, a Riddle, or an obscure Allegory. page 83 (a8r)

Alston

VI.80-87

Wing

S2581

Other editions

1656: Wing S4116A 1673: Wing S4116C; 1683: Wing S4116E, S2583 Variant; 1688: Wing S2584

Facsimiles

Smith, John. Mystery of Rhetoric Unveiled, 1657. English linguistics 1500-1800, no. 205. Menston: Scolar Press, 1969. view record