Thomas Hearne, Ductor Historicus or a Short System of Universal History (1698)
Date
1698
Author
Lexicon title
Definitions
Book title
Ductor Historicus: Or, A Short System Of Universal History, And An Introduction To The Study of that Science. Containing A Chronology of the most Celebrated Persons and Actions from the Creation to this Time. A Compendious History of the most considerable Transactions in the World to the Time of our Saviour, In a Series of the Successions of the Ancient Monarchies And Governments of the World. An Account of the Writings of the most noted Historians, with the Judgments of eminent Criticks upon them. Together with Definitions, and Explications of Terms used in History and Chronology. And General Instructions for the Reading of History
Publication place
London
Publisher
Timothy Childe
Transcription source
EEBO/TCP (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Text type
printed book
Genre
Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions
Subject area
history
Language
headwords: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: headword
sample: LUSTRUM is the Space of five Years. This Word is seldom us'd, unless in Poetry. (p. 4)
sample: LUSTRUM is the Space of five Years. This Word is seldom us'd, unless in Poetry. (p. 4)
Wing
H1309
