Authority Cited: [Minsheu] Minshew
Author name and dates: John Minsheu (1550-1627)
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BKG Bio-tweet: Linguist; lexicographer; first(?) to use subscriptions to publish: eleven-language dictionary; SJ cites in etym.
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary)
Author name and dates: John Minsheu (1550-1627)
PORTRAIT
BKG Bio-tweet: Linguist; lexicographer; first(?) to use subscriptions to publish: eleven-language dictionary; SJ cites in etym.
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary)
- ?Ductor in linguas (Guide to Tongues): The Guide into Tongues. with the Agreement and Consent with one another, as also their Etymologies, in ... eleven Languages. London, John Browne, 1617. [BKG Note: edition used by SJ uncertain; more than one copy in the 1785 sale catalogue of SJ library]
- Minsheu (no work cited): anon, assuage, badge, bashful, caterpillar, chime, chitterlings, clinch, coach, collop, danger, flash, gag, giblets, girl, grant, haberdasher, loom, lunch, metheglin, pizzle, purl, puttock, quintin, rash, relish, scroll, sirrah, skreen, taunt, thence, thimble, throb, trappings, wanton, wrangle [BKG Note: the 36 instances identified by electronic search of several editions are likely about half of the total Minsheu (Miinshew) citations.]