John Minsheu (or Minshew) (1560–1627) was an English linguist and lexicographer. He was born and died in London. Little is known about his life. He published...
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it may be from Gaelic "biodag", the etymology of which is not known. John Minsheu (1671) suggested that it might be of Dutch origin. One known instance...
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stakes, as agreed upon. John Florio describes primero played by two persons for "one shilling stake and three rest (pool)." In Minsheu's "Spanish Dialogues"...
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was later enlarged by John Minsheu in A dictionarie in Spanish and English (London: Edmund Bollifant, 1599; London: printed by John Haviland for various...
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Illustrations of Shakspeare, and of Ancient Manners, 1807, p. 235-243. John Minsheu and William Somner (17th century), Edward Lye of Oxford (1694–1767),...
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(1560) and Giovanni Miranda (1566); the English Richard Percivale (1591), John Minsheu (1599) and Lewis Owen (1605); the French Jean Saulnier (1608) and Jean...
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sound of Bow Bells, are in reproach called Cockneys." The same year, John Minsheu included the term in this newly restricted sense in his dictionary Ductor...
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how their religion may be best maintained, promoted, and popularized. John Minsheu's The Dictionarie in Spanish and English (1599) has "Birdes of a feather...
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Spanish words, mestengo (or mesteño) and mostrenco. English lexicographer John Minsheu glossed both words together as 'strayer' in his dictionary of 1599. Both...
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Tongues by John Minsheu (1617). Minsheu's Guide was an expensive book to publish: it ran to 726 folios and included text in unusual typefaces. Minsheu financed...
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correspondent (died 1695) April 12 (burial) – John Minsheu, English linguist and lexicographer (born 1560) April 19 – John Beaumont, English dramatist and poet...
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more than half a century after the name Primero was in common use. John Minsheu, an English linguist and lexicographer, claims that Primero and Prima...
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Gloucester, in the sense of a prince, or governour." The quote from John Minsheu's Dictionarie in Spanish and English (1599), given in Johnson's Dictionary...
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William Chester Minor (Sri Lanka/US/UK, 1834–1920) English historical John Minsheu (England, 1560–1627) Spanish and English bilingual, 11-language multilingual...
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by César Oudin (1616), the Ductor in linguas [Guide into Tongues] by John Minsheu (1617), and the Vocabolario italiano e spagnolo [Italian and Spanish...
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(1607) is based on literary texts and was later used by John Minsheu, Lorenzo Franciosini, John Stevens and other lexicographers; Girolamo Vittori expanded...
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derives from the Spanish and Portuguese casta, which, according to the John Minsheu's Spanish dictionary (1569), means "race, lineage, tribe or breed". When...
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English, or alternatively it may have been borrowed direct from Latin. John Minsheu's 1617 lexicon, Ductor in linguas, gives a definition for Bíson (Early...
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institution membership required.) Minsheu, John (1599) Percyvall's (R.) Dictionarie in Spanish and English (as enlarged by J. Minsheu) Edm. Bollifant, London,...
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