Robert Cawdrey, A Table Alphabetical, Containing and Teaching the Understanding of Hard Usual English Words (1617)
Date
1617
Lexicographer
Book title
A Table Alphabeticall, or the English expositor, containing and teaching the true writing, and vnderstanding of hard vsuall English wordes, borrowed from the Hebrew, Greeke, Latine, or French, &c. With the Interpretation thereof by plaine English words, gathered for the benefit and helpe of all vnskilfull persons. Whereby they may the more easily and better vnderstand many hard English words, which they shall heare or read in Scriptures, Sermons, or else where, and also be made able to vse the same aptly themselues. Set forth by R.C. and newly corrected, and with the adition of many vsefull wordes enriched
Edition
fourth
Publication place
London
Printer
J. Roberts
Publisher
E. Weaver
Text type
printed book
Genre
Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions
Subject area
hard words
Language
headwords: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: headword
sample: sex, kinde. (h7v)
sample: sex, kinde. (h7v)
STC
4886
Other editions
1604 (STC 4884 (see LEME 276);
1609: STC 4884.5;
1613: STC 4885
1609: STC 4884.5;
1613: STC 4885
