John Kersey the younger, A New English Dictionary (1702)

Date

1702

Lexicographer

J. K.(alternate name for John Kersey the younger ) Note: 11/10/2005

Book title

A New English Dictionary: Or, a Compleat: Collection Of the Most Proper and Significant Words, Commonly used in the Language; With a Short and Clear Exposition of Difficult Words and Terms of Art. The whole digested into Alphabetical Order; and chiefly designed for the benefit of Young Scholars, Tradesmen, Artificers, and the Female Sex, who would learn to spell truely; being so fitted to every Capacity, that it may be a continual help to all that want an Instructer

Publication place

London

Publisher

Henry Bonwicke and Robert Knaplock

Transcription source

Scolar Press facsimile (Edinburgh University Library)

Text type

printed book

Genre

General English Dictionaries and Glossaries

Subject area

hard words

Language

headwords: English
explanations: English
explanations: English

Word-group

type: alphabetical

Word-entry

type: headword
sample: AN Abaisance, or low-Congee.

Alston

V.77

STC

N020206

Other editions

1713 (ESTC T123541; 2nd edn.)
1731 (ESTC T123542; 3rd edn.)
1739 (ESTC T123540; 4th edn.)

Facsimiles

Kersey, John. A New English Dictionary, 1702. English linguistics, 1500-1800, no. 140. Menston: Scolar Press, 1969. view record

Criticisms

Osselton, N. E. "John Kersey and the Ordinary Words of English." English Studies 60 (1979): 555-61. view record
Heddesheimer, Christian. "The Authorship of `A New English Dictionary' (1702)." Notes and Queries 213 (1968 December): 444-45. view record
Perry, J. "John Kersey." Series 4. Notes and Queries 7 (172) (1871): 323. view record

Sources

• Starnes, DeWitt T., and Gertrude E. Noyes. The English Dictionary from Cawdrey to Johnson: 1604-1755. Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 1946. view record