Selected quad for the lemma: friend_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
friend_n	worthy_a	write_v	youth_n	12	3	7.1753	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A69015	An Englis[h] expositor[:] teaching the in[ter]pretation of the harde[st] words [vsed] in our language. With sundry [ex]plicat[ions, de]scriptions [, and d]iscourses. By I.B. ...	J. B. (John Bullokar)	1621 (1621)	STC 4084; ESTC S115630	109,867	269

AN ENGLISH EXPOSITOR TEACHING THE INTERpretation of the hardest words vsed in our Language WITH SVNDRY EXPLICATIONS Descriptions and Discourses By I. B. Doctor of Physicke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 LONDON Printed by IOHN LEGATT 1621. TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE AND VERTVOVS HIS SINGVLAR GOOD LADIE THE LADIE IANE Vicountesse Mountague all honour and happinesse BEing perswaded Right Noble Lady by some friends for publike benefit to make this collection of words common which at first was intended only for priuate vse as written in my youth at the request of a worthy Gentleman one whose loue preuailed much with me I could not find in heart to send it forth no better furnished than with a bare Title least like an vnknowne Infant it should be exposed to ouer hard vsage or peraduenture scornefully reiected aduenturing abroad without countenance of any friend or commander Vpon sure knowledge therefore of your most honourable disposition and former experience of your Ladyships fauour toward me I am emboldned to present this little Pamphlet vnto your honour with hope that by your Patronage it shall not onely be protected from iniuries but also finde fauourable entertainment and perhaps gracefully admitted among greatest Ladies studious Gentlewomen to whose reading I am made beleeue it will not proue altogether vngratefull And although I may well be taxed of folly or presumption that for credit of a slender trislle craue the assistance of so eminent a person yet such I confesse is my care thereof since I must not deny it for my owne and my duty and deuotion so affected to your honour and all yours that I haue hoping of your Ladiships pardon wilfully repelled all reasons which might disswade me choosing herein not so much what may seeme most seemely as what I suppose most behoouefull for me Accept therefore I beseech your Honour and receiue vnder your noble tuition this little vocabulary Treatise which hauing beene many years restrained of liberty is now glad of enlargement especially recommended vnto so worthy a Patronesse The glorious Sun loseth not the least point of his heighth by liberall lending downe his light and quickning with his influence the lowest creatures neither is any eminency disgraced that easily condescendeth to others desired good which is also confirmed by the Poet who saieth Conspicitur nunquam meliore potentia causa Quàm quoties vanas non sinit esse preces Not thinking needfull therfore to trouble your Honour with many words of entreaty vpon assured confidence of your wel known Charity and goodnesse I conclude sincerely wishing to your Ladiship the best that may be wished and resting my selfe euer Your Honours to be commanded IO. BVLLOKAR To the Courteous Reader HEre haue you Gentle Reader that which at first was not made for you though now willingly for your benefite if you embrace it offered to your kind acceptance Commend it my selfe I will not lest I should giue occasion to some quick heads to come vpon me with the verse Autor opus laudat c. Yet this I will say and say truely that in my yonger yeares it hath cost mee some obseruation reading study and charge which you may easily beleeue considering the great store of strange words our speech doth borrow not only from the Latine and Greeke and some from the ancient Hebrew but also from forraine vulgar Languages round about vs beside sundry olde words now growne out of vse and diuers termes of art proper to the learned in Logicke Philosophy Law Physicke Astronomie c. yea and Diuinitie it selfe best knowen to the seuerall professors thereof And herein I hope such learned will deeme no wrong offered to themselues or dishonour to Learning in that I open the signification of such words to the capacitie of the ignorant whereby they may conceiue and vse them as well as those which haue bestowed long study in the languages for considering it is familiar among best writers to vsurpe strange words and sometime necessary be reason ou● speech is not sufficiently furnished with apt termes to expresse all meanings I suppose withall their desire is that they should also be vnderstood which I knowing that bonum quò communius eo melius haue endeauoured by this Booke though not exquisitely yet I trust in some reasonable measure to performe It is easier all know to find faults then to mende them and easier to mend faults in anothers worke already written then to write any new worke free from all fault If therefore any fault finder or ouer curious Criticke for from the best learned I expect best vsage shall to shew his skill grow captious and quarrell at my interpretations I will desire him to forbeare bitternesse and temper a while his choler till hauing laide this worke aside hee trauell himselfe in the same or some other new argument and then I doubt not but he will either become more indifferent or giue others occasion to bid him English the olde Prouerbe Medice cura teipsum But as for you iudiciall or courteous Reader whose fauour I desire and whose counsell or friendly correction I will not refuse if to you I say any thing herein shall occurre which seemeth by me omitted mistaken or not fully satisfactory to your expectation for indeed there are almost slipt away seuen years since I had any leasure as much as to looke on it I promise that vpon warning hereof giuen to me or the Printer at a second Impression it shall be amended or supplyed Meanewhile vse this as you finde it and I perswade my selfe your honesty will say it is worth the money you paide for it So committing my selfe and Booke to your fauorable good liking I commit you to God From my house at Chicester in Sussex this 17. day of October 1616. Your hearty well-willer Io Bullokar An Instruction to the Reader HAue care to search euery word according to the true Orthography thereof as for Phoenix in the Letter P. not in F. for Hypostaticall in Hy not in Hi Remember also that euery word marked with this marke * is an olde word onely vsed of some ancient writers and now growne out of vse Lastly if a word bee of different significations the one easie the other more difficult I onely speake of interpretation of the hardest as in the words Tenne Girle Garter may appeare ABandon To forsake to cast off Abate To make lesse In our common Law it signifieth to enter into any inheritance before the right heire take possession with intent to keepe the said heire out of it Abatement The action or enterprise of him which abateth in the common Lawe Abba An Hebrewe word signifying Father Abbert To helpe or assist one in euill Abbertour Hee that counselleth or comforteth another to doe any euill Abbot A spirituall Lord ouer a religious house of Monkes Abbreuiate To make short to abridge Abbreuiation A making short an abridgement Abdicate To refuse or forsake to renounce Abeston A stone found in Arabia of the colour of yron which being