Az Eszterházy Károly Tanárképző Főiskola Tudományos Közleményei. 1996. Vol. 1. Eger Journal of English Studies.(Acta Academiae Paedagogicae Agriensis : Nova series ; Tom. 24)

Geoff Barnbrook: From description to prescription and back again

§malecontent, discontented nauigable, where ships may safely passe, or that may be sailed upon. notifie, to make knowne, or to giue warning of. odious, hatefull, disdainfull omit, let passe, ouerslip. palinodie, a recanting or unsaying of anything passeouer, one of the Jcwes feasts, in remembrance of Gods passing ouer them, when he slewe so many of the Egiptians persecute, trouble, afflict, or pursue after. pomegarnet, or pomegranet, (k) fruite preposterous, disorder, froward, topsiteruie, setting the cart before the horse, as we use to say racha, fie, a note of extreame anger signified by the gesture of the person that speaketh it, to him that he speaketh to represent, expresse, beare shew of a thing scurrilitie, saucie, scoffing Sympathie,(g) fcllowelike feeling, transferre, conceiue ouer transparent, that which may bee scene through truculent, cruell, or terrible in countenance veneriall,) fleshly, or lecherous, venerous,) giucn to lecherie §vpbraid, rise in ones stomach, cast in ones teeth: Even in this relatively small sample (50 words) we can see certain characteristics of Cawdrey's defining style. Some words, such as 'barke', 'diminution', 'expert', 'magistrate' and 'malecontent', are given one-word synonyms. Others, such as 'aggrauate' and 'gargarise', are defined by simple phrases which are almost capable of replacing the single word in its normal contexts. Some, notably 'hononimie', 'nauigable' and 'palinodie', have more complex definitions, which would be much more difficult to use as straight substitutes. Some words, such as 'passeouer' and 'iudaisme' are 15