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Titolo |
The nevv world of words, or, A general English dictionary [[electronic resource] ] : containing the proper significations and etymologies of all words derived from other languages : viz. Hebrew, Arabick, Syriack, Greek, Latin, Italian, French, Spanish, Brittish, Dutch, Saxon, &c. usefull for the adornment of our English tongue : together with the definitions of all those terms that conduce to the understanding of any of the arts or sciences ... : to which are added the significations of proper names in mythology or poetical fictions and historical relations, with the geographical descriptions of the chief contries and cities in the world : especially of these three nations, wherein their chiefest antiquities, battles, and other most memorable passages are mentioned : as also all other subjects that are useful and appertain to advance our English language : a work very necessary for strangers, as well as our own countrymen : or for all persons that would rightly understand what they discourse, write or read : the third edition containing a supply of above two thousand words / / collected and published by E. P |
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Note generali |
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Added t.p. engr. |
Signatures P3, R4, Ee, Z, Ggl have print faded; Ss1, Aaa4 are stained with some loss of text in filmed copy. Signatures P1-S1, Ee1-Hh1, Rr1-Tt1, and Zz1-end photographed from Huntington Library copy and inserted at end. |
Reproduction of original in British Library. |
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