Volume 1

A dictionary of the English language : in which the words are deduced from their origin and illustrated in their different significations by examples from the best writers. To which are prefixed a History of the language, and an English grammar / By Samuel Johnson.

  • Samuel Johnson
Date:
1820
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A dictionary of the English language : in which the words are deduced from their origin and illustrated in their different significations by examples from the best writers. To which are prefixed a History of the language, and an English grammar / By Samuel Johnson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    pi ip poj? pune anb bpihr, Xnb bai bure nihre. Dep ip pele bure pane, 2?nb pepre buren lppinche. 8e ■p mai anb nele Sebep come, Sope hir pel uopSenche. Dep ip blij-ce buren rpege, Snb bp buren beaSe. Der eupe pullen punie Sen, BiSe hi bie]? anb eabe. Dep ip geugej?e buren elbe, 7£nb elbe buren unhelf>e. Nip Sep popge ne pop non, Ne non unipelSe. Dep me pel bpihren ipen, Spo ape he ip mib lpipjf e: pe one mai anb pel al bien, Gnglep anb mannep bhpce. To Sape bhpce up bping 30b, Der pixeS buren enbe. Danne he upe paula unbinr, Op lichamlice benb. Epipr geue up lebe ppich hp, Snb habbe ppichne enbe. Der pe moren Sibep cumen, Danne pe hennep penbe. About the year 1150, the Saxon began to take a form in which the beginning of the present English may be plainly discovered; this change seems not to have been the effect of the Norman conquest, for very few French words are found to have been introduced in the first hundred years after it; the language must therefore have been altered by causes like those which, notwithstanding the care of writers and societies instituted to obviate them, are even now daily making innovations in every living lan- guage. I have exhibited a specimen of the lan- guage of this age from the year 1135 to 1140 of the Saxon chronicle, of which the latter part was apparently written near the time to which it relates. Dip gaepe pop J?e king Srephne opep pae ro Nopmanbi. ] peji pep unbep-pangen. popfti -p hi penben -p he pculbe ben alpuic alpe pe eom pep. *J pop he habbe ger hip rpepop. ac he ro belb ir t pcarepeb porhce. COicel habbe penpi king gabepeb golb 3 pyluep. anb na job ne bibe me pop hip paule J?ap op. Da pe king Srephne ro Gngla-lanb com pa macob he hip gabeping aer Oxene-popb. -j jmp he namjje bipcop Rogep op 8epep bepi. ^ Slexanbep bipcop op Lincoln. -3 re Lancelep Rogep hipe neuep. ^ bibe aelle in ppipun. ril hi japen up hepe caprlep. Da pe puikep unbepgaeron -p he milbe man pay ■] popre ] gob. 3 najupripe ne bibe. pa. biben hi alle punbep. pi habben him manpeb makeb anb aSep puopen. ac hi nan rpeuSe ne heolben. alle he paepon pop-ppopen. ~] hepe rpeoSep poplopen. pop asupic pice man hip caprlep makebe anb agaenep him heolben. anb pylben pe lanb pull op caprlep. pi puencren puiSe pe ppecce men op pe lanb mib caprel-peopcep. pa. pe caprlep papen makeb. pa pylben hi mib beoulep anb yuele men. Da namen hi pa men pe hi penben ■p am gob hepben. baSe be nihrep anb be baeiep. caplmen pimmen. anb biben heom in ppipun eprep golb anb pyluep. ~] pineb heom un-rellenbhce pining, pop ne paepen naeupe nan maprypp ppa pineb alpe hi paspon. OOe hengeb up bi pe per anb pmokeb heom mib pul pmoke. me hengeb bi pe Jmmbep. oSep bi pe hepeb. 3 hengen bpynigep on hep per. COe bibe cnorreb prpengep aburon hepe hasueb. -j uupySen ro ~p ir gasbe ro p haepner. pi biben heom in quaprepne J?ap nabpep ~} pnakep •] pabep paepon mne. ~} bpapen heom ppa. 8ume hi biben in cpucer-hup. j> ip in an cepre -p pap pcopr 3 napeu. ~j un bep. ] bibe pcaeppe pranep j?ep mne. -] J?pengbe pe man J?aep inne. -p hi bpaecon alle pe hmep. In mam op pe caprlep paepon lop 3 gpi. ■p paepon pachenregep p rpa oSep pjie men habben onoh ro baepon onne. •p pap ppa maceb p ip paeprneb ro an beom, *] biben an pcaepp ipen aburon pa mannep f>pore -| hip halp. -p he ne mihre nopibeppapbep ne pirren. ne hen. ne plepen. oc baepon al ■p ipen. ODam Jmpen hi bpapen mib hungaep. J ne canne. ■j ne mai rellen alle pe punbep. ne alle pe pinep ■p hi biben ppecce men on hip lanb. 1 p laprebe pa xix. pinrpe pile Srephne pap king, -j aeupe ir pap uueppe anb uueppe. pi laeibengaeilbep on pe runep aeupeu pile. ■] clepeben ir renpepie.