Niels Hemmingsen, The Preacher, or Method of Preaching (1574)

Date

1574

Author

Nicholas Heminge(alternate name for Niels Hemmingsen )

Translator

I. H.(alternate name for John Horsfall )

Book title

The Preacher, or Methode of preaching, written in Latine by Nicholas Hemminge, and translated into Englishe by I. H. Very necessarie for all those that by the true preaching of the word of God, labour to pull downe the Sinagoge of Sathan, and to buylde vp the Temple of God

Publication place

London

Publisher

Thomase Marshe

Transcription source

EEBO/TCP

Text type

printed book

Genre

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

Subject area

• Bible
• grammar
• logic
• rhetoric

Summary

The translator gives a list of untranslatable Latin terms in (a) the "Epistle to the Reader" (a3r-a5v; "Genus, differentia, species, adiuncta, exordium, enarratio, genus didascalicum, paraeneticum. &c.") and (b) a section, "Of definition" (e1r-e6v). The treatise, described as a Christian rhetoric, weaves logical definitions of some terms in interpretation into the prose discussion.

Language

headwords: English
explanations: English
explanations: English

Word-group

type: alphabetical

Word-entry

type: logical
sample: The definition therfore wich the godlye preacher shall declare as true and immouable, must haue foure parts in the treatise, Exposition, Reason, Confirmation & conclusion. And there is two kindes of definitions, pertaining to a deuine, the one short & briefe, y^e other copiouse & large, that is content with the kinde & with the difference." (e1)

STC

13065

Other editions

1576: STC 13066

Facsimiles

Hemmingsen, Niels. The Preacher, 1574. English linguistics, 1500-1800, no. 325 . Menston: Scolar Press, 1972. view record

Criticisms

Jones, Richard Foster. The Triumph of the English Language. London: Oxford University Press, 1953. 74-75 . view record