Authority Cited: Abbot
Author name and dates: George Abbot (1562-1633)
BKG Bio-tweet: Cleric; theological and geographical writer; Archbp. of Canterbury; a translator of the K. James Bible
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary): [BKG Note: about 32 Abbot cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 1 and about 81 Abbot cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 2. Two Abbot cites identified as added in the 1773 Dict., indicated in bold italics below.]
A briefe description of the whole world Wherein is particularly described, all the monarchies, empires, and kingdomes of the same, with their academies. Newly augmented and enlarged, with their seuerall titles and scituations thereunto adioyning. 1624 At London: Printed by A. Mathewes for Iohn Marriot, and are to bee sold at his shop in Saint Dunston's Church-yard in Fleet-street; advertisement; distemperature; east; eater; elsewhere; elucidator; exceeding; exprobiation; fabulosity; . . . land; large; . . . westward; who; yea.
* Abbot (no work cited); descry (1773 Dict.: "Our merchants, to their great charges, set out to descry the seas."
Author name and dates: George Abbot (1562-1633)
BKG Bio-tweet: Cleric; theological and geographical writer; Archbp. of Canterbury; a translator of the K. James Bible
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary): [BKG Note: about 32 Abbot cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 1 and about 81 Abbot cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 2. Two Abbot cites identified as added in the 1773 Dict., indicated in bold italics below.]
A briefe description of the whole world Wherein is particularly described, all the monarchies, empires, and kingdomes of the same, with their academies. Newly augmented and enlarged, with their seuerall titles and scituations thereunto adioyning. 1624 At London: Printed by A. Mathewes for Iohn Marriot, and are to bee sold at his shop in Saint Dunston's Church-yard in Fleet-street; advertisement; distemperature; east; eater; elsewhere; elucidator; exceeding; exprobiation; fabulosity; . . . land; large; . . . westward; who; yea.
* Abbot (no work cited); descry (1773 Dict.: "Our merchants, to their great charges, set out to descry the seas."