Dictionarium Britannicum, or, A more compleat universal etymological English dictionary than any extant :
containing not only the words, and their explication, but their etymologies ... also explaining hard and technical words ... illustrated with near five hundred cuts ... likewise a collection and explanation of words and phrases us'd in our antient charters, statutes, writs ... also the ... mythology of the Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, &c. ... to which is added a collection of proper names of persons and places in Great-Britain ... /
collected by several hands ; the mathematical part by G. Gordon ; the botanical by P. Miller ; the whole revis'd and improv'd with many thousand additions by N. Bailey ...

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Main Author

Bailey, N. (Nathan), d. 1742.

Related Names

Bailey, N. (Nathan), d. 1742.
Miller, Philip, 1691-1771.
Gordon, George, fl. 1719-1726.

Language(s)

English

Published

London : Printed for T. Cox ..., 1730.

Subjects

Names, Geographical > Names, Geographical / Great Britain.
Names, Personal > Names, Personal / Great Britain.
English language > English language / Dictionaries.

Note

"This embraces, in one arrangement, the contents of the two volumes of the 'Universal etymological English dictionary'"--BM.
Title page printed in red and black.
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Physical Description

[818] p. : ill. ; 36 cm. (fol.)

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