…Thus, the 17th century can be said to be the age of difficult dictionaries, but the 18th century was the age when English dictionaries were established in the true sense. First, two English dictionaries, presumably edited by John Kersey, the New English Dictionary (1702) and the Anglo-Britannica (1708), included not only difficult and specialized words but also many everyday words, and were a step towards the compilation of general English dictionaries. Nathaniel Bailey's (died 1742) Universal Etymological Dictionary (1721) took this character as a general dictionary even further and contributed to the compilation of full-fledged English dictionaries by adding examples from contemporary writers, albeit on a small scale. … *Some of the terminology explanations that mention the "Anglo-Britannica Dictionary" are listed below. Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information |
…このように,17世紀は難語辞典の時代ということができるが,次の18世紀は真の意味で英語辞書が成立した時代である。まず,カージーJohn Kersey編と推定される二つの英語辞典,《新英語辞典》(1702)と《アングロ・ブリタニカ辞典》(1708)とは,難語や特殊語のみならず日常用語も多く取り入れ,一般的な英語辞典の編集に一歩を進めた。この一般辞書としての性格をさらに推し進めるとともに,小規模ながら同時代の作家からの用例を加えることによって,本格的な英語辞典の編集に寄与したのがベーリーNathaniel Bailey(1742没)の《万有英語語源辞典》(1721)である。… ※「《アングロ・ブリタニカ辞典》」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。 出典|株式会社平凡社世界大百科事典 第2版について | 情報 |
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