单词 | calepin |
释义 | † calepinn. Obsolete. A dictionary (sometimes ‘a polyglot’); figurative one's book of authority or reference; one's notebook or memorandum-book.Hence the French phrases ‘je consulterai là-dessus mon calepin’, ‘cela n'est pas dans son calepin’, ‘mettez cela sur votre calepin’ (make a note of that to serve as a lesson), and the English (obsolete) ‘to bring any one to his Calepin’, i.e. to the utmost limits of his information. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > linguistic unit > lexicography > [noun] > dictionary dictionaryc1480 calepin1568 world of words1598 lexicon1603 Richard Snary1627 dict.1656 thesaurus1840 1568 in G. J. Piccope Lancs. & Cheshire Wills (1860) II. 226 I wyll that Henry Marrecrofte shall have my calapyne and my parafrasies. 1579 W. Fulke Heskins Parl. Repealed in D. Heskins Ouerthrowne 56 Let him turne ouer all his vocabularies, Calepines, and dictionaries. 1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. iii. xiii. 636 A stone is a bodie: but he that should insist and vrge: And what is a body?..And so goe-on: Should at last bring the respondent to his Calepine or wittes end. a1649 W. Drummond Wks. (1711) 174 Taxations, Monopolies, Tolls..and such Impositions as would trouble many Calepines to give Names unto. 1662 J. Evelyn Sculptura i. 10 We have weeded the Calepines, and Lexicons. 1772 T. Nugent tr. J. F. de Isla Hist. Friar Gerund II. 53 Calepino is not..the title of a work, but a patronymic of the country of the author..a native of Calepio in Italy.] This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.1568 |
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