A select glossary of English words used formerly in senses different from their present

The references are to the pages of the ‘Select Glossary.’ Two dates separated by a hyphen denote the birth and death date of the author; a date preceded by an obelisk denotes the death date; a single date unmarked denotes the date of the work.

• Adams, Thomas (p. 139): The Devil’s Banquet, 1614.
• Allestree, Richard (p. 23): Sermons, 1619-1681.
• Andrewes, Bp. (p. 154): Sermons, 1555-1626.
• Articles of the Church, 1552.
• Ascham, Roger (pp. 13, 290): Toxophilus, 1545; Schoolmaster (1570, published posthumously), † 1568.
• A. V., Authorized Version of the Bible, 1611.
• Bacon, Francis (pp. 12, 73, 282), 1561-1626.
• Bale, Bp. (p. 29): Select Works, 1495-1563.
• Ballad of John de Reeve (pp. 135, 162); see Bishop Percy’s MS. II. 550, ed. Hales and Furnivall, 1868.
• Barnes, Robert (p. 102): Works, † 1540.
• Barrow, Isaac (pp. 93, 98): Sermons, 1630-1677.
• Bates, William (p. 149): Spiritual Perfection, 1625-1699.
• Baxter, Richard (p. 98), 1615-1691.
• Beaumont and Fletcher (pp. 11, 59); Beaumont, Francis, 1586-1616; Fletcher, John, 1576-1625.
• Beaumont, Joseph (p. 153): Psyche, 1616-1699.
• Becon, Thomas (pp. 73, 143): Works, 1512-1570.
• Berners, Juliana (p. 228): The Book of St. Albans, 1481.
• Blount, Charles (pp. 70, 141): Philostratus, 1680, 1654-1693.
• Bolton, Edmund (p. 12): Hypercritica, fl. 1620.
• Boorde, Andrew (p. 307): The Boke of the Introduction of Knowledge, 1547, E.E.T.S. X.
• Broughton, Hugh (p. 302), 1549-1612.
• Browne, Sir Thomas (p. 8), 1605-1682.
• Burke, Edmund (p. 194), 1729-1797.
• Burton, Robert (pp. 24, 193): Anatomy of Melancholy, 1576-1640.
• Butler, Samuel (pp. 48, 199): Hudibras, 1612-1680.
• Capgrave, John (p. 232): Chronicle of England, 1460.
• Cavendish, George (p. 24): Life of Cardinal Wolsey, † 1562.
• Caxton, William (p. 5): Legenda Aurea, † 1491.
• Chapman, George (p. 75): translator of Homer, 1557-1634.
• Chaucer, Geoffrey (p. 263): The Astrolabe (p. 52), 1328-1400.
• Cheke, Sir John (p. 47): The Gospel of St. Matthew, 1514-1557.
• Chillingworth, William (pp. 80, 218), 1602-1644.
• Clarendon, Lord (p. 139): History of the Rebellion, 1608-1674.
• Corbet, Richard (p. 195): Iter Boreale, 1582-1635.
• Coryat, Thomas (p. 119): Crudities, 1577-1617.
• Cotgrave, Randle (p. 6): Dictionary, 1611.
• Cotta, John (p. 304): The Trial of Witchcraft, 1616.
• Cotton, Charles (p. 224): Montaigne’s Essays, 1685.
• Coverdale, Miles (pp. 40, 63), 1488-1568.
• Cowell, John (p. 45): The Interpreter, 1554-1611.
• Cowley, Abraham (pp. 33, 140, 220), 1618-1667.
• Cranmer, Thomas (p. 33), 1489-1556.
• Cudworth, Ralph (p. 210): Intellectual System, 1617-1688.
• Daniel, Samuel (p. 198): The Tragedy of Philotas, 1562-1619.
• Davenant, Sir William (p. 251), 1605-1668.
• Davison, Francis (p. 245): Poetical Rhapsody, 1602.
• Denham, Sir John (p. 116), 1615-1668.
• Dodoens, History of Plants, see Lyte.
• Donne, John (p. 20), 1573-1631.
• Drayton, Michael (pp. 58, 114, 222), 1563-1631.
• Dryden, John (p. 99), 1631-1701.
• Eger and Grine (p. 135); see Bishop Percy’s Folio MS. I. 341, ed. Hales and Furnivall, 1867.
• Ellis, Clement (p. 298): Character of a True Gentleman, 1630-1700.
• Elyot, Sir Thomas (p. 31), † 1546.
• English Gilds (p. 186), E.E.T.S. 40.
• Fairfax, Edward (p. 13): Tasso, 1600.
• Faringdon, Anthony (p. 199): Sermons, 1596-1658.
• Feltham, Owen (p. 116): Resolves, fl. 1650.
• Fletcher, Phineas (pp. 5, 95): Purple Island, 1584-1650.
• Florio, John (pp. 53, 119): Montaigne, 1603; Italian Dictionary, 1598, † 1625.
• Forby, Robert (p. 132): East Anglia, 1830.
• Foxe, John (p. 28): Book of Martyrs, 1517-1587.
• Frith, John (p. 144), † 1533.
• Fuller, Thomas (pp. 4, 7, 11), 1608-1661.
• Gascoigne, George (pp. 31, 278), † 1577.
• Gauden, John (p. 28): Hieraspistes, 1605-1662.
• Genesis and Exodus (p. 277), E.E.T.S. 7.
• Geneva Version of the Bible (p. 27), 1560.
• Gibbon, Edward (p. 179), 1737-1794.
• Glanville, Joseph (p. 279): Sermons, 1636-1680.
• Golding, Arthur (pp. 50, 108, 156), fl. 1570.
• Gower, John (pp. 40, 233), † 1402.
• Grafton, Richard (pp. 118, 273): Chronicle of King Richard III., fl. 1550.
• Greene, Robert (pp. 227, 271): Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay, † 1592.
• Grenewey, Richard (p. 128): Tacitus, 1598.
• Grimeston, Edward (p. 76): History of Lewis XI., 1614.
• Grindal, Edmund (p. 81): Articles of Enquiry, 1519-1583.
• Gurnall, William (p. 37): The Christian in Complete Armour, 1617-1679.
• Habington, William (p. 70): History of Edward IV., 1605-1645.
• Hacket, John (p. 30): Life of Archbishop Williams, 1592-1670.
• Hakluyt Society (p. 171): Memorials of Japan.
• Hales, John (p. 215): Sermons, 1584-1656.
• Hall, Bp. (p. 19): Satires, 1574-1656.
• Hall, Edward (p. 62): Henry V., † 1547.
• Hamilton, William (p. 40): The Braes of Yarrow, 1704-1754.
• Hammond, Henry (p. 23), 1605-1660.
• Hampole, Richard Rolle de (pp. 27, 130): The Pricke of Conscience (Philolog. Soc.); The Psalter (Clar. Press), † 1349.
• Harington, Sir John (p. 49): Orlando Furioso, 1561-1612.
• Harleian Miscellany (p. 41), published 1808-1812.
• Harris, John (p. 120): Voyages, 1702.
• Harrison, William (p. 298): Description of England, 1577.
• Harvey, Gabriel (pp. 87, 177): Pierce’s Supererogation, 1592.
• Havelok the Dane (p. 85), E.E.T.S. IV., ab. 1300.
• Hawes, Stephen (p. 46): Pastime of Pleasure, 1506.
• Hawkins, Sir Richard (p. 4): Observations, 1593.
• Herbert, George (p. 40): The Temple, 1593-1633.
• Herbert, Sir Thomas (p. 189): Travels, 1634.
• Herrick, Robert (p. 11): 1591-1674.
• Heylin, Peter (pp. 39, 41, 102), 1600-1662.
• Heywood, Jasper (p. 85): Seneca’s Hercules Furens, 1561.
• Hobbes, Thomas (p. 78): Thucydides, 1588-1679.
• Hodgson, William (p. 35): Verses on Ben Jonson.
• Holland, Philemon (pp. 7, 8, 13, 28, 58, 70), 1551-1636.
• Holyday, Barten (p. 146): Technogamia, 1593-1661.
• Homilies (p. 6), 1562.
• Hooker, Richard (p. 83), † 1600.
• Hooper, John (p. 18), 1495-1555.
• Howe, John (pp. 39, 93): The Redeemer’s Dominion, 1630-1705.
• Howell, James (pp. 32, 88, 137): Letters, Lexicon, † 1666.
• Hutchinson, Simon (p. 132): Drainage of Land, 1846.
• Isaacson, Henry (p. 217): Life of Lancelot Andrewes, 1650.
• Jackson, Thomas (p. 14): Blasphemous Positions of Jesuits, † 1640.
• Jewel, Bp. (p. 13), 1522-1571.
• Johnson, Samuel (p. 194), 1709-1784.
• Jonson, Ben (p. 48), 1574-1637.
• Joseph of Arimathie (p. 40), E.E.T.S. 44.
• King, Bp. (p. 134), 1591-1670.
• Knolles, Richard (p. 285): History of the Turks, † 1610.
• Kyngdome of Japonia (p. 173).
• Latimer, Bp. (p. 4), † 1555.
• Locke, John (p. 149), 1632-1704.
• Lydgate, John (p. 107): fl. 1400.
• Lyly, John (p. 120): Euphues, 1579.
• Lyndesay, Sir David (p. 122): The Monarchie, 1553.
• Lyte, Henry, translator of Dodoens’ History of Plants (p. 307), 1578.
• Machyn, Henry (p. 133): Diary, 1550, Camden Soc.
• Malory, Sir Thomas (p. 169): Morte d’Arthur, 1469.
• Mandeville, Sir John (pp. 52, 229): Travels, 1350.
• Marlowe, Christopher (pp. 22, 50), 1564-1593.
• Massinger, Philip (pp. 24, 114), 1584-1640.
• Mede, Joseph (p. 302): Sermons, 1586-1638.
• Middleton, Thomas (p. 88), † 1627.
• Milton, John (pp. 2, 5), 1608-1674.
• Monro, Robert (p. 230): His Expedition, 1657.
• More, Henry (p. 56): Immortality of the Soul, 1662.
• More, Sir Thomas (pp. 18, 96), 1480-1535.
• Morte Arthure (p. 130), E.E.T.S. 8.
• Murray, Lady (p. 166): Life of George Baillie, 1822.
• Nashe, Thomas (p. 70): Christ’s Tears over Jerusalem, 1593.
• Nelson, Robert (p. 28): Address to Persons of Quality, 1715.
• Nicolson, Bp. (p. 183): Exposition of the Catechism, 1671.
• North, Thomas (pp. 10, 26, 38): Plutarch’s Lives, fl. 1600.
• Oldham, John (p. 184), 1653-1683.
• Oley, Barnabas (p. 265), fl. 1650.
• Overbury, Sir Thomas (p. 142), 1581-1613.
• Palsgrave, John (p. 265): French Grammar, † 1564.
• Pecock, Bp. (p. 136): Repressor, 1449, Rolls Series.
• Phillips, Edward (p. 280): New World of Words, 1630-1680.
• Piers Plowman (p. 40): Clar. Press, ed. Skeat.
• Pilkington, Bp. (pp. 18, 82), 1520-1575.
• Pinkerton, John (p. 34): Select Scottish Ballads, 1783.
• Pope, Alexander (p. 3), 1688-1744.
• Preston, John (p. 51): Of Spiritual Death and Life, 1587-1628.
• Promptorium Parvulorum (pp. 40, 54), 1440, Camden Soc.
• Prynne, William (p. 242), 1600-1699.
• Purvey, John (p. 158), fl. 1380.
• Puttenham, George (pp. 136, 150): Art of English Poesy, 1589.
• Quarles, Francis (p. 246): Emblems, 1592-1644.
• Raleigh, Sir Walter (p. 83): History of the World, 1552-1618.
• Randolph, Thomas (p. 136), 1605-1634.
• Rawley, William (p. 207): Life of Bacon, 1588-1667.
• Reynolds, John (p. 31): God’s Revenge against Murder, 1621.
• Rheims Version of the New Testament, 1582.
• Richeome’s Pilgrim of Loretto (p. 61), 1630.
• Rogers, Daniel (p. 25): Naaman the Syrian; Matrimonial Honour, 1642.
• Romaunt of the Rose (p. 66), ab. 1400.
• R. V., Revised Version of the Bible, 1885.
• Rycaut, Sir Paul (pp. 48, 289), † 1700.
• Sancroft, William (p. 237): Variorum Shakespeare, 1616-1693.
• Sanderson, Bp. (pp. 68, 104), 1587-1663.
• Scoticisms (p. 47), 1787.
• Selden, John (p. 125), 1584-1654.
• Seven Champions, The (p. 19).
• Shaftesbury, Lord (p. 138), 1671-1713.
• Shakespeare, William (pp. 2, 185), 1564-1616.
• Shirley, James (p. 152), † 1666.
• Short Catechism, A (p. 20), 1553.
• Sidney, Sir Philip (p. 16), 1564-1586.
• Skelton, John (p. 277): Manerly Margery, † 1529.
• Skinner, Stephen (pp. 48, 165): Etymologicon, 1671.
• Smollett, Tobias (p. 57), 1721-1771.
• Somers’ Tracts (p. 277).
• South, Robert (p. 15), 1633-1716.
• Southwell, Robert (p. 193): Lewd Love is Loss, 1560-1595.
• Spectator, The, 1711-1714.
• Spenser, Edmund (pp. 11, 162), † 1599.
• Stanyhurst, Richard (p. 283), † 1618.
• State Papers (p. 52).
• Sterling, Lord (p. 59): Darius, 1603.
• Stow, John (p. 143): Annals, 1525-1605.
• Strong, William (p. 222): Of the Two Covenants, 1678.
• Strype, John (pp. 34, 124), 1643-1737.
• Stubbes, Philip (pp. 30, 278): Anatomy of Abuses, 1583.
• Surrey, Earl of (p. 165), † 1547.
• Swedish Intelligencer (p. 174), 1632-1635.
• Swift, Jonathan (p. 264), 1667-1745.
• Sydenham, Humphrey (p. 97): The Athenian Babbler, 1627, † 1650.
• Sylvester, Joshua (p. 29), 1563-1618.
• Taylor, Bp. (pp. 4, 7, 12), 1613-1667.
• Temple, Sir William (p. 7), 1628-1698.
• Teonge, Henry (p. 238): Diary, 1675.
• Townley Mysteries (p. 189), Surtees Soc.
• Trevelyan Papers (p. 86), Camden Soc.
• Trevisa (p. 258), Rolls Series, 41.
• Turkish Spy (p. 273).
• Tusser, Thomas (pp. 31, 208): Points of Good Husbandry, 1516-1580.
• Tyndale, William (pp. 49, 54, 65), † 1536.
• Waller, Edmund (p. 14), 1605-1687.
• Walpole, Horace (p. 256), 1717-1797.
• Webster, John (p. 11): Duchess of Malfi, printed 1619
• Weever, John (p. 133), 1576-1632.
• Whitlock, Richard (p. 8): Zootomia, 1654.
• Wiclif, John (pp. 9, 158), † 1384.
• William of Palerne (p. 153), E.E.T.S. I.
• Wood, Antony à (pp. 87, 188), 1632-1695.
• Worthington, William (p. 287): Life of Joseph Mede, 1703-1778.