The Imperial Dictionary Of The English Language: A Complete Encyclopedic Lexicon, Literary, Scientific, And Technological; Volume 4

Ogilvie, John; Annandale, Charles

ISBN 10: 1247938530 / ISBN 13: 9781247938530

Edité par Nabu Press, 2011

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• Titre: The Imperial Dictionary Of The English Language: A Complete Encyclopedic Lexicon, Literary, Scientific, And Technological; Volume 4
• Éditeur: Nabu Press
• Date de parution: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1247938530
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781247938530
• Reliure: Couverture souple
• État de l'article: New

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The Imperial Dictionary Of The English Language: A Complete Encyclopedic Lexicon, Literary, Scientific, And Technological, Volume 4; The Imperial Dictionary Of The English Language: A Complete Encyclopedic Lexicon, Literary, Scientific, And Technological; John Ogilvie

John Ogilvie, Charles Annandale

Blackie & Son, 1884

Présentation de l'éditeur

Dr. Ogilvie, was commenced in January, 1847, and completed in the same month of the year 1850; in 1854 the publication of theS upplement was begun, and it was finished the following year (1855). This work was based on the American dictionary of Noah Webster, LL.D., the edition emplojred being that published in 1841, the last which received amendments from the hands of the author himself. The modifications and improvements introduced by Dr. Ogilvie, though great and important, did not materially alter the scope and character of the work, farther than to the extent of giving it more of an encyclopaedic form and of greaily increasing its value as a repertory of technological and scientific terms; the total number of entries having been increased to about 100,000, being 20,000 more than were contained in the work on which it was based. An important and highly useful feature which distinguished this work very much from all other English Dictionaries was the employment of pictorial illustrations in the text. The idea of using pictorial illustrations in this manner seems to have originated with the well-known dictionary of Nathan Bailey, a certain number of woodcuts, chiefly explanatory of heraldic and mathematical terms, being inserted in the edition of his dictionary published in 1726-27 (2 vols. 8vo), while a greater number was inserted in later editions. In no previous English Dictionary, however, was this aid to the elucidation of definitions and descriptions carried into effect so thoroughly and systematically as in Ogilvie sI mperial Dictionary. In such high estimation was this new feature held that the publishers of Webster sA merican Dictionary speedily followed the example thus set before them, and introduced pictorial illustrations into that work also, and in doing so copied and reproduced one after another the greater number of the figures given in the
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