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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28472	A world of errors discovered in The new world of words, or, General English dictionary, and in Nomothetes, or, The interpreter of law-words and terms by Tho. Blount ... Esq.	Blount, Thomas, 1618-1679.	1673 (1673)	Wing B3345; ESTC R18536	22,640	22

A World of Errors DISCOVERED IN THE New World of Words OR General English DICTIONARY AND IN NOMOTHETES OR THE INTERPRETER OF LAW-WORDS and TERMS By Tho. Blount of the Inner Temple Esquire PROV 27.5 Melior est manifesta correptio quam amor absconditus In the SAVOY Printed by T.N. for Abel Roper John Martin and Henry Herringman at the Sun in Fleetstreet over-against St. Dunstans Church at the Bell in St. Pauls Churchyard and at the Blew Anchor in the Lower Walk of the New Exchange 1673. TO THE READER MVst this then be suffered A Gentleman for his divertisement writes a Book and this Book happens to be acceptable to the World and sell a Book-seller not interessed in the Copy instantly employs some Mercenary to jumble up another like Book out of this with some Alterations and Additions and give it a new Title and the first Author 's out-done and his Publisher half undone Thus it fared with my Glossographia the fruit of above Twenty years spare hours first published in 1656. Twelve Moneths had not passed but there appeared in Print this New World of Words or General English Dictionary extracted almost wholly out of mine and taking in its first Edition even a great part of my Preface onely some words were added and others altered to make it pass as the Authors legitimate off-spring In these Additions and Alterations he not seldom erred yet had not those Errors been continued with new supplies to a Second and third Impression so little was I concerned at the particular injury that these Notes in great part collected from his first Edition had never reproached his Theft to the World First therefore this gallant Peice faces it with a pompous Frontispiece wherein are sculped our two famous Universities the Pictures of Sir Francis Bacon Sir Henry Spelman Mr. Selden Camden and others of our most Learned Men of the last Age with a Scholar of each Vniversity in his Formalities And the Title Page affirms the work to be very necessary for strangers as well as our own Countreymen As if our Author intended the World should believe his Book to be the Fac totum of all Great Britains learning and himself the Parent of so immense a Production Soon after we find a Catalogue prefixed of the names of divers Learned Persons of this Age Eminent in or contributary to any of those Arts Sciences or faculties contained in the following Work Whereby the Author would at least obscurely insinuate that those Learned Persons had contributed to or assisted him in it thereby to advance its reputation but I believe nothing less having heard some of the cheif of them utterly disown both the Author and his Work Thus does the Book pride it self in vanity and outward form but when you come to the substance you will find Dr. Skinners Judgment both of it and the Author most true In one place he says Et pro more Authoris exponitur absurdissime In another Ridicule ut solet omnia In a third Ubi notare est miserimam Authoris ignorantiam c. What then will Strangers think of it what our own Countreymen They will say Canis festinans caecos parit catulos That such a Dictionary cannot be hudled up in Eight or ten Moneths nor without much industry and care though the Author be never so learned For we read of an Italian Dictionary that was Forty years in compiling by the joynt-labor of several Learned Men and that Sir Francis Bacon after he had written his Instauratio Magna did year by year for Twelve years revise and alter it before he would commit it to the Press All Writers may modestly claim the benefit of Humanum est Errare but certainly our Author has transgressed the bounds of that Indulgence For I did not read half his Book to pick up these with many more Exceptions What then would a more knowing Reader discover that should seriously peruse the whole Miserimam Authoris ignorantiam But that which cheifly incited me to this publication was in some measure to redeem the Terms of the Common Law of the Land from the scandal of a most Barbarous and Senceless Interpretation which too too often occurs through his Book though all other subjects have not scaped too without their share in his mistakes As first for Words of Ecclesiastical use How grosly hath he abused the two common words Candlemass and Ember-week Are we not like to have an accurate account of obsolete difficult or foreign words from him who stumbles so miserably at plain Ember-week There being a particular Devotion ordered for those weeks in the Liturgy of the Church of England But he still fancies himself under a Commonwealth and a Church without Bishops as appears in Sequestration Down Court of Peculiars Perhaps he hath been more versed in Military Affairs alass no his interpretation of Blunderbuss and Dag shews how little he is to be trusted with Weapons He hath also given a fair specimen of his skill in Sea-Terms by interpreting Balass and Jetson nay he hath shewn an extraordinary endeavor and dexterity in mistaking else he could never have erred in those things that are common in all Trading and Commerce as Gallon Pipe Cloue Weigh c. But to the Particulars in order as they lie A World of Errors DISCOVERED In the New World of WORDS OR General English DICTIONARY AMesse A Priests Hood or Cap which he weareth in the Quire Both the word itself is mistaken and the signification The word is Amice from amictus which is a Linnen Cloth with two long strings which the Priest puts about his Neck and ties the strings about his middle Amoctise To kill It has a more usual and proper signification viz. To grant Alien or give Land in Mortmain Ancient Demeasn a term in Common Law signifying a publick tribute by a Tenure whereby all Mannors belonging to the Crown in the days of Edgar or Saint Edward did hold There is nothing of a Publick Tribute nor of Edgar in the Point Ancient Demain is a Tenure whereby all the Crown-Mannors in the days of Edward the Confessor or William the Conqueror were held and the number of them particularly appears in Domesday under the title Terra Regis Balasse A Saxon word signifying Gravel laid in the bottom of a Ship to keep it upright He mistakes the word for Ballast which is a Dutch word nor does it signifie onely Gravel but any other ponderous substance Balasse hath a different signification Baronage A Tax or Subsidy of Aid to be levied for the King out of the Precincts of Baronies The word had never any such signification till now Rex Baronagium suum is taken for the King and all His Subjects or the whole Parliament representing them according to Selden in his Titles of Honor. Bastard Signifies in the Common Law one begotten out of Wedlock One may be begotten out of Wedlock yet be no Bastard by our Authors leave Beacon and Beads He derives

Conies and Hares within certain of his Lands Nor does this mend the matter for though a man may have a Warren by Prescription yet Warren does not signifie a Prescription or Grant Wolfetchsod Sax. The condition of an Vtlary The Saxon word is Wulvesheved or Wulfesheofod Anglice Wolfeshead and Vtlary for Vtlaw Saint Wilfrids Needle A certain narrow hole in the Church of Wakeman in Yorkshire wherein womens honesties were in times past tryed There is no such Church as Wakeman in Yorkshire But Camden in his Britannia relates the same story of Rippon Church and the Cheif Magistrate of that Town being called the Wakeman our Author by a new Trope converts the Magistrates name into a Church Xerxes A King of Persia Who with an Army of Seventeen hundred thousand Men Thou Boy I never read his Army consisted of above Ten hundred thousand and so Thomasius and Goldman deliver it Other Authors say even there is a cipher too much and that his Army was made up of onely One hundred thousand men IN perusing this Dictionary you may find some words twice explicated and those too with different Interpretations where one must necessarily be false Such are Dancet and Dansette Dodkin and Dotkin Jotacism and Herbert twice Ockham and Okum Rere-County and Rier-County Varry and Verrey with divers others It seems our Authors memory also failed him or he did not understand them to be the same He calls his Book The New World of Words and in his Title Page tells us it contains the proper significations and Etymologies of all words derived from the Hebrew Arabick Syriack enumerating in all Eleven Languages yet descends to the needless Explication of many trivial words of the Old World as Beesom Barm Parsly Rosemary Bulhead Buzzard Capable Gloomy Indifference Industry Inferior Satisfaction Discern Expence Ruinous c. For example BEesom A thing to sweep with made sometimes of Broom and ordinarily so called though made of Birch Heath c. We are obliged to him for this Learned Exposition though he does not tell us whether it be derived from the Hebrew Arabick or Syriack c. To have made it at all fit to take up a room in his Book he might have said the Saxons called it a Besm and that in some parts of England it is otherwise called a Broom Barm Yest the flowing or overdecking of Beer If he had told us that this in the North of England is called Godsgood he had said something We will observe lastly what the Learned Dr. Skinner in his Etymologicon Linguae Anglicanae says of this Authors English Dictionary which he often cites and seldom without reproof COllock An old Saxon word signifying a Pail without a handle Engl. Dict. Collock Authori Dict. Angl. apud quem solum occurrit exp qui antiquam Angl. Sax. vocem esse dicit sed apud Somnerum non occurrit Credo igitur Authorem hic ut ferè semper somniâsse Dr. Skinner Calsounds A kind of Linnen Drawers usually worn among the Turks Engl. Dict. Colsounds vox quae mihi in solo Dict. Angl. occurrit pro more Authoris exponitur absurdissimè ut ipsius verbis utar A kind of Linnen Drawers usually worn among the Turks reverà a Fran. Gal. Calcons Subligaculum Femoralia interiora Dr. Skinner Chestoul Poppy Engl. Dict. Chestoul in Dict. Angl. mendosè pro Chesbowles vel Cheesebowles Dr. Skinner Corsary French A Courrier Engl. Dict. Credo autem si Author hanc vocem unquam legit vel fando audivit quod valdè dubito ipsum in ejus expositione errare Dr. Skinner Cosh or Cotterel old word A Cottage Engl. Dict. Cosh Authori Dict. Angl. apud quem solum vox occurrit dicit esse idem cum Cotterel ridiculè ut solet omnia Dr. Skinner A Dag A Pistol so called from the Dacians who first used them Engl. Dict. Dag Vox quae hoc sensu in solo Dict. Angl. occurrit ubi notare est miserrimam Authoris ignorantiam qui tormentum bellicum manuarium minus a Pistol exponit dictum putat A Dacis qui primi hoc armorum genere usi sunt imo ultimi omnium Europae populorum Dr. Skinner Fosset A little long Coffer or Chest from the Latin word Fossa a Ditch Engl. Dict. Fosset Vox quae mihi in solo Dict. Angl. occurrit Exponitur autem Cista Capsa Author deducit a Lat. Fossa imperitè ut solet omnia Credo potius ortum ab Ital. Forciere idem signante Higginio autem Adr Junii interpreti Cista dicitur Forset a quo proculdubio haec vox orta est Dr. Skinner Goule Old Word Vsury from the Latin word Gula i. e. The Throat Engl. Dict. Goule Vox quae mihi in solo Dict. Angl. occurrie Author exponit usuram deflectit a Lat. Gula Ego nihil nec de voce ipsa quod unquam revera extiterit nec de Etymo credo Dr. Skinner A Marrow French A Companion or Fellow also a Beggarly Rascal Engl. Dict. Author malè ut solet omnia exponit Socium item mendicum vilem A Beggarly Rascal Priori enim sensu nusquam gentium occurrit c. Dr. Skinner Rigols A certain Musical Instrument called a Clericord comes from the French Regalliadir i. e. to rejoyce for Regaillardir Engl. Dict. Rigols Vox quae mihi in solo Dict. Angl. occurrit exponitur instrumentum musicum quod alio nomine Clavichordium A Clavicord dicitur Author somniando ut solet suaviter deducit a Fr. Gal. Regalliadir exhilarari Sanè si talis vox sit quod nullus credo mallem deducere a Fr. Gal. Se Rigoler deridere lascivire Vel quod magis placet a Lat. Lyricola Dr. Skinner Once more to the READER I Had no sooner travelled over the New World of Words but I stumbled upon a late Book entituled Nomothetes or an Interpreter of obscure Law Words and Terms which obliged me to the trouble of another perambulation My Nomolexicon or Law Dictionary being the product of many years pains was published in Trinity Term 1670. and within the space of Five Terms after this Interpreter was wholly both Written and Printed This Author it seems made choice of the Title Nomothetes that it might gingle with Nomolexicon but the more Learned in the Greek Tongue than my self affirm the word improper for an Interpreter and to signifie onely a Legislator or Law-giver and how fit he is to assume that title will soon appear He dedicates his Book with much confidence to a learned and very honorable Person to whom certainly he ought to have written at least in true Grammar In his Preface he says I have also gleaned after the Book entituled The Law Dictionary wherein are many good things which I have hinted as every ingenious Reader will discern but withal have added some Centuries of Words therein totally omitted Though I did not expect or desire any commendations from this Gentleman yet he was in some sort obliged to it for the credit of his own Work

according to Camden Missale Lat. A Breviary or Mass-Book This Error he borrowed out of Cotgraves Dictionary The Books are of very different kinds Mission Lat. A sending it is also taken peculiarly or if a power given by the Church of Rome to go Nonsence if the Printer do not acquit him Nativo habendo A Writ for the apprehending and restoring to his Lord his Villain claimed as his inheritance who in Common Law is called Neif However blundringly the words are put together the Author intends Neif shall relate to Villain and Villain to be a Man but Neif is the Bond-woman or she Villain Nonability A Term in Law Being an exception taken against the Plaintiff or Defendant why he cannot commence any sute in Law We must convert Defendant into Demandant to make it tolerable sence None of a day The third quarter of a day from Noon till Sun-set Where then shall we find the other three quarters He should have said from Noon till the Sun be half-way down An Obit Lat. A Rental an Obsequy or Funeral It signifies an Office or certain Prayers for the dead Oratorians An Order of Fryers so called They are not Fryers but a kind of Regular-Secular Priests Ordeal a Saxon word Signifying Judgment a kind of purgation Of which there are several kinds as Campfight Free Ordeal and Water Ordeal Campfight was none of the kinds of Ordaele and Free Ordaele should be Fire Ordaele For Ordalium fuit judicium aquae ignis ferri Ostiary Lat. One that keeps the Hoasts in a Church a Door Keeper a Keeper If he had onely said a Door Keeper he had preserved the word from an erroneous explication For Ostiary has no relation to the keeping the Hoasts in a Church Pathopep Greek An expression of a Passion in Rhetorick it is a figure by which the mind We are left to guess at the rest for so he leaves it And Pathopep is an unknown word of his New World The Court of Peculiars A certain Court in the Bishops time which dealt in certain Parishes This is a certain kind of Independent-Commonwealth expression insinuating a certain Non-Entity of Bishops at present Peter-pence A tribute given by Inas King of the West-Saxons It was also called the See of Rome It was also called Romefeoh and Rome-penny and was a Pension or an Alms given by King Inas not a Tribute Pipe A Measure of Wine or Oyl containing Twenty six Gallons or half a Tun. By this account a Tun should be but Fifty two Gallons which contains Two hundred fifty two The Prerogative Court A certain Court belonging to the Civil Law in which the Commissary sits upon Inheritances faln either by the intestate or by Will and Testament This is an Ecclesiastical Court wherein all Testaments are proved and Administrations granted where the party dying within the Province of Canterbury hath Bona notabilia in some other Diocess V. Cokes 4 Inst fol. 335. Pownd In Common Law signifie an Inclosure to keep Beasts in but more especially a place of strength where Cattle distreined for any trespass are put until they be replevied or distreined Where Cattle distreined are put till they be distreined is suitable to the rest Primier Seisin A word used in Common Law a Branch of the Kings Prerogative whereby he hath the first possession of all Lands and Tenements through the Realm This is sufficiently erroneous The King before the Statute of 12 Car. 2. ca. 24. had the Primier Seisin or first possession onely of all Lands and Tenements holden of him in cheif whereof his Tenant died seised in Fee which is taken away by the said Statute Quaver A measure of time in Musick being the half of a Crotchet as a Crotchet the half of a Quaver a Semiquaver c. What fustian is here Just so two is the half of four and four the half of two and Semiquaver is explicated by a dumb c. Reasonable Aid In Common Law is a duty that the Lord of the Fee claimeth holding by Knights Service or in Soccage to marry his Daughter or make his son Knight I doubt our Author bears some malice to the Common Law else he could not have maimed so many of its Terms which are in several Books expounded to his hand It should be claimeth of his Tenants to make it sence Returns Certain set times in each of the four Terms Each Term consisting of 4 5 or 8 Returns The longest Term has but ● Returns as every Almanack will shew Rosemary Lat. Rosmarinus A well and most wholsome Plant He omits the singular use of it in adorning a piece of Roast Beef Scapular Lat. Belonging to the Sholders whence a Scapulary a Monks Hood or Cowl reaching down to the Sholders This Scapulary is mis-interpreted it being a narrow piece of Cloth or Stuff worn by Monks and Fryars over the rest of their habit and reaching from the Sholders to the Ground and is neither like a Hood nor Cowl Sequestration Lat. A separating a thing in controversie But it is now commonly taken for a seising upon the Rents of Delinquents Estates for the use of the Common-wealth Our Author having Revised and Printed his Book as appears by the Title-page in the year 1671 is very bold to call this Kingdom a Commonwealth as he also does in the word Coroner where he speaks of the State and Commonwealth of England Seragesm Sunday The Sunday before Shrove-Tuesday Sexagesima Sunday is the Sunday sennight before Shrove-Tuesday Shafment A kind of measure containing an hand bredth It is from the top of the Thumb set upright to the utmost part of the Palm which is by a tall mans hand half a foot Socinians A certain Sect that deny the Divinity of Christ first spred by Faustus Socinianus of Siena It was first broached by Laelius Socinus and advanced by Faustus Socinus of Sienna Tierce French A certain liquid measure containing the third part of a Pipe which is two Tuns And before he said a Pipe is Twenty six Gallons or half a Tun. Strange contradictions and mistakes even in common notions Trestle A Trevet or Stool with three Feet Trevet is a Three-footed instrument of Iron to set Cauldrons on Threstle that of Wood for other uses Tuilleries French So called because that Titles were made there Tiles and Titles are all one with our Author Verdera Lat. Viridarius A judicial Officer of the Kings Forest This our Author will say was the Printers fault for Verderer And Vncore purist French For Vncore prist Warrant or Warranty In Common Law is a Covenant made in a Deed by one man to another to warrant and secure himself and his heirs against all men whatsoever for the injoyning of any thing agreed on between them Surely no man will buy any Land of this Author if his Warranty or Covenant shall onely extend to secure himself and his heirs Warren Lat. Varrenna or Vivarium A Prescription or Grant to a Man from the King of having Phesants Patridges