Elisha Coles
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Elisha Coles was a 17th century English lexicographer and stenographer, chorister of Magdalen College
, Oxford
, 1658-61; teacher of Latin and English in London, 1663; usher of Merchant Taylors School, 1677; master of Galway school, 1678.
He published devotional verses, 1671, a treatise on shorthand, 1674, primers of English and Latin, 1674-5, an English dictionary, 1676, and a Latin dictionary, 1677.
His 1676 Dictionary contains
Coles' dialectal entries are mostly collected from the glossary by John Ray
with some additions from the Dictionarium Rusticum in John Worlidge
's 1669 Systema Agriculturae.
Magdalen College, Oxford
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, Oxford
Oxford
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, 1658-61; teacher of Latin and English in London, 1663; usher of Merchant Taylors School, 1677; master of Galway school, 1678.
He published devotional verses, 1671, a treatise on shorthand, 1674, primers of English and Latin, 1674-5, an English dictionary, 1676, and a Latin dictionary, 1677.
His 1676 Dictionary contains
- "many words and phrases that belong to our English Dialects in our several Counties, and where the particular Shire is not exprest, the distinction (according to the use) is more general into North and South-Country words."
Coles' dialectal entries are mostly collected from the glossary by John Ray
John Ray
John Ray was an English naturalist, sometimes referred to as the father of English natural history. Until 1670, he wrote his name as John Wray. From then on, he used 'Ray', after "having ascertained that such had been the practice of his family before him".He published important works on botany,...
with some additions from the Dictionarium Rusticum in John Worlidge
John Worlidge
John Worlidge was a noted agriculturalist. He lived in Petersfield, Hampshire, England.John Worlidge was one of the first British agriculturalists to discuss the importance of farming as an industry...
's 1669 Systema Agriculturae.
Works
- A Practical Discourse of God's Sovereignty
- Christologia, Or, A Metrical Paraphrase on the History of Our Lord (1671)http://books.google.ch/books?id=IQI3AAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=inauthor:Elisha+inauthor:Coles&lr=
- The Compleat English Schoolmaster (1674)
- Nolens Volens, Or, You Shall Make Latin Whether You Will Or No
- A Dictionary, English-Latin and Latin English http://books.google.ch/books?id=Z-APAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=inauthor:Elisha+inauthor:Coles
- An English Dictionary: Explaining the Difficult Terms that are used in Divinity, Husbandry, Physick, Phylosophy , Law, Navigation, Mathematicks, and Other Arts and Sciences (1676) http://books.google.ch/books?id=VOwIAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=inauthor:Elisha+inauthor:Coles#PPT1,M1
- Syncrisis, Or, The Most Natural and Easie Method of Learning Latin (1677)
- Of Perseverance
External links
- http://faculty.ed.uiuc.edu/westbury/paradigm/Burness.html