Francis Lodwick, A Common Writing (1647)
Date
1647
Author
Francis
Lodowick(alternate name for
Francis
Lodwick
)
Note: 11/10/2005
For nationality: father is from Flanders, mother English
Lexicon title
Here under follow all the Radical Characters of Verbs and Nounes, made use of in this Work
Book title
A Common Writing: Whereby two, though not understanding one the others Language, yet by the helpe thereof, may communicate their minds one to another
Publisher
the Author
Text type
printed book
Genre
Treatises
Subject area
grammar
Summary
A theory of meaning
Language
headwords: English
Extent
31
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: headword
sample: Appelative I thus distinguish. To be a name by which a thing is named and distinguished, but not continually, only for the present, in relation to some action done or suffered, as for instance, Speech being of a murther committed, he that committed the same, will, from the act, be called a murtherer, and the party on whom the act is committed, the murthered, these names thus given in reference to the action done, continues no longer with the party, then thought is had of the action done, but on the contrary the specificall proper name, remaineth continually with the denominated, as the specificall name of man, beast, so also the individual denomination of any particular man, as Peter, Thomas, &c. (b3r-b3v)
sample: Appelative I thus distinguish. To be a name by which a thing is named and distinguished, but not continually, only for the present, in relation to some action done or suffered, as for instance, Speech being of a murther committed, he that committed the same, will, from the act, be called a murtherer, and the party on whom the act is committed, the murthered, these names thus given in reference to the action done, continues no longer with the party, then thought is had of the action done, but on the contrary the specificall proper name, remaineth continually with the denominated, as the specificall name of man, beast, so also the individual denomination of any particular man, as Peter, Thomas, &c. (b3r-b3v)
Wing
L2814
Facsimiles
Lodowyck, Francis. A Common Writing, 1647. English linguistics, 1500-1800, no. 147. Menston: Scolar Press, 1969.
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Modern editions
Lodwick, Francis. The Works of Francis Lodwick: A Study of his Writings in the Intellectual Context of the Seventeenth Century. Ed. Vivian Salmon. London: n.p., 1972.
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