Thomas Blount, A World of Errors (1673)
Date
1673
Author
Thomas
Blount
Note: 30/09/2005
Book title
A World of Errors Discovered In The New World of Words, or General English Dictionary. And in Nomothetes, Or The Interpreter of Law-words and Terms
Publication place
London
Printer
T.N.
Publisher
Abel Roper, John Martin, Henry Herringman
Transcription source
EEBO/TCP transcript: included with Edward Phillips' New World (1658)
Text type
printed book
Genre
Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions
Subject area
- branded words
- hard words
- law
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: headword
sample: Candlemass, The second day of February, so called (as some think) because about that time they left of burning Candles at Mass, which was between Four and five of the Clock---
This is so ridiculously absurd, that (as some think) none but our Author ever Printed the like; if between Four and five of the Clock relate to the morning (2 Febr.) then they must say Mass in the dark, if to the afternoon, then it sutes with Colonel Barksteads wisdom, who in the Rump time committed a Papist for being at an Evening Mass (as he called it) at an Ambassadors House in Longacre. (re: Phillips)
Minstrel, Minstrellus, from the French Menstrel---
There is no such French word; it is
Menestrier. (re: Manley)
sample: Candlemass, The second day of February, so called (as some think) because about that time they left of burning Candles at Mass, which was between Four and five of the Clock---
This is so ridiculously absurd, that (as some think) none but our Author ever Printed the like; if between Four and five of the Clock relate to the morning (2 Febr.) then they must say Mass in the dark, if to the afternoon, then it sutes with Colonel Barksteads wisdom, who in the Rump time committed a Papist for being at an Evening Mass (as he called it) at an Ambassadors House in Longacre. (re: Phillips)
Minstrel, Minstrellus, from the French Menstrel---
There is no such French word; it is
Menestrier. (re: Manley)
Wing
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Criticisms
Bongaerts, Theo, ed. The Correspondence of Thomas Blount (1618-1679), A Recusant Antiquary. Amsterdam: n.p., 1978.
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Whitborne, J. B. "Thomas Blount, Author of `Fragmenta Antiquitatis,' etc.." Notes and Queries 8 (1853): 286. view record
Whitborne, J. B. "Thomas Blount." Notes and Queries 8.216 (1853 December 17): 603. view record
Whitborne, J. B. "Thomas Blount, Author of `Fragmenta Antiquitatis,' etc.." Notes and Queries 8 (1853): 286. view record
Whitborne, J. B. "Thomas Blount." Notes and Queries 8.216 (1853 December 17): 603. view record
