The P section of Robert Cawdrey's 1604 dictionary A Table Alphabeticall.
Not content with a mere transcription, I have also translated Cawdrey's 400 year old English into modern E2 English, through a process involving the OED, much research and many educated guesses.
The main entries may appear in as many as five parts :
Original {Corrected} [Repaired] (Modern) <E2>
Original is exactly as it appears in Cawdrey.
Corrected fixes what I believe to be a typo.
Repaired swaps I with J, and U with V, as necessary for current alphabetic usage.
Modern gives the modern American spelling.
E2 removes plurals and verb endings and such, so it links to an existing node.
Each operation is performed on its left-hand neighbor. The results are omitted if nothing
changed. Only the rightmost word is hard-linked.
A leading (f) indicates French origin, a leading (g) indicates Greek origin.
Please msg me with any corrections or suggestions.
See Also
Main Entry,
Introduction,
A,
B,
C,
D,
E,
F,
G,
H,
I/J,
L,
M,
N,
O,
P,
Q,
R,
S,
T,
U/V
- PAcifie (pacify)
- to make quiet
- pactation (paction)
- a couenanting or bargayning
- (f) palatine
- belonging to a Princes Court or pallace
- (g) palinodie (palinody)
- a recanting, or vnsaying of any thing
- palpable
- that may be felt, manifest
- pamphlet
- a small treatise, or booke
- (g) parable
- similitude, or an applying of some thing to our matter, fitly alleaged for some likenesse which it hath to our purpose
- (g) paradise
- place of pleasure
- (g) paradoxe (paradox)
- marueilous, or strange speech
- (f) paragon
- patterne, example
- (g) paraleles (parallels) <parallel>
- lines, or other things as farre off from one another, in one place as in another
- paramour
- an amorous louer
- (g) paraphrase
- exposition of any thing by many words
- (g) parasite
- a base flatterer, or soothing companion
- (g) parenthesis
- a clause contayned in another sentence
- paricide (parricide)
- a murtherer of parents
- (f) parle (parley)
- speech, or conference
- parsimonie (parsimony)
- thriftines, sparing
- participate
- partake, deuide, or distribute to giue, or take part
- particularize
- to deuide into parts, and to handle euery particuler
- partition
- deuision
- passeouer [passeover] (passover)
- one of the Jewes feasts, in remembrance of Gods passing ouer them when he slewe so many of the Egiptians
- passion
- suffering, griefe
- pastorall (pastoral)
- belonging to sheapheards
- (g) patheticall (pathetical)
- vehement, full of passions or mouing affections
- (g) patriarke (patriarch)
- chiefe father
- patrimonie (patrimony)
- fathers, gift, or goods left by a father
- (f) patronage
- defence, protection
- patronise (patronize)
- defend
- paucitie (paucity)
- fewnes, or smale number
- pause
- thinke, stay, or rest
- (f) pauillion [pavillion] (pavilion)
- tente
- peerelesse (peerless)
- worthie, vnmatchable
- peccaui [peccavi]
- I haue offended
- peccant
- offending, doing amisse
- peculiar
- proper, or specially belonging
- pecuniarie (pecuniary)
- coyne
- pellicles <pellicle>
- skinnes
- penetrable
- that may be pearsed
- penitentiarie (penitentiary)
- one repenting, or doing pennaunce
- penaltie (penalty)
- losse
- (f) pension
- payment, yearely fee
- (f) pensiue [pensive]
- sorrowfull
- (g) pentecost
- whitsontide
- penurie (penury)
- want or extreame neede
- perambulation
- a walking about
- peregrination
- iourneing in a strange land
- peremptorie (peremptory)
- resolute, short
- perforations <perforation>
- holes, or pierced through
- perfidious
- trayterous, vnfaithfull
- perfricated <perfricate>
- rubbed much
- perilous
- dangerous
- periclitation
- ieopardie, or hazarding
- (g) period
- the end of a perfect sentence
- periurie [perjurie] (perjury)
- forswearing, or breaking of ones oath
- permanent
- continuing, or a biding till the end
- permission
- sufferance, leaue
- permit
- suffer, giue leaue
- permutable
- changable
- pernitious (pernicious)
- dangerous, hurtfull
- perpendicular
- directly, downe right
- perpetrate
- to commit, or doe
- perpetuitie (perpetuity)
- continuance for euer
- perplexitie (perplexity)
- troublesome, griefe, distresse doubtfulnes
- persecute
- trouble, afflict, or pursue after
- persist, perseuer [persever] (persevere)
- continew, constantly and resolutely.
- personate
- to counterfaite, anothers person
- perspicacie (perspicacity)
- quicknes of sight, vnderstanding
- perspicuous
- euedent, cleare, that may bee seene through
- pertinacie (pertinacy)
- obstinacie, stifnes in opinion
- perturbation
- disquietnes, or trouble
- peruerse [perverse]
- froward, mischeiuous
- peruert [pervert]
- ouerthrowe, or turne vp side downe
- (f) pese (piece)
- to weigh
- peruicacie [pervicacie] (pervicacity)
- obstinacie, stifneckednes
- (f) pesant (peasant)
- clowne
- pester
- filled
- pest
- the plague, or pestilence
- pestiferous
- contagious, hurtfull
- petition
- prayer, or request
- (f) pettigree (pedigree)
- stock, or ofspring
- petulancie (petulancy)
- wantonnes, saucines
- (g) phantasie (phantasy)
- imagination
- (g) philacteries (phylactery )
- scroles of parchment whereon, was writen the tenne commaundements
- (g) physiognomie (physiognomy)
- knowledge of a mans nature by his visage, and countenance
- (g) physicke (physick)
- medicine, helping, or curing
- (g) phlebotomie (phlebotomy)
- letting bloud
- (g) phrase
- forme of speach
- (g) philosophie (philosophy)
- study of wisdome
- (g) phrensie (phrensy)
- madnes
- pietie (piety)
- godliness, holines
- (f) pillage
- spoile in warre, and sacking, of the enemies
- pinguiditie (pinguidity) <pinguid>
- fatnes, or greasinesse
- (f) pilot
- maister, guider of a ship
- (f) pionner (pioneer)
- digger, or ditcher
- (g) piramis <pyramid>, piramides (pyramids) <pyramid>
- a steeple, or other building, or a pillar broade beneath, and sharpe aboue
- pistated <pistate>
- baked
- (f) pirate
- a robber on the sea
- (f) pittance
- short, banquet
- placable
- easie to be pleased
- (g) planet
- wandring starre
- (f) plaintife (plaintiff)
- the partie complayning
- plausible
- pleasing, or receiued ioyfully, and willingly
- plenitude
- fulnes, thicknesse
- (f) plonge (plunge)
- dippe, or put vnder the water
- plume
- feather
- pluralitie (plurality)
- more then one
- pluuiatile [pluviatile] <pluvial>
- raine
- (g) poeme (poem)
- verses of a poet
- (g) poet
- a verse maker
- poetesse (poetess)
- a woman poet
- (g) pole
- the end of the axeltree whereon the astronomers, faine the heauens to be turned
- pollicie (policy)
- a wittie shift
- (g) poligamie (polygamy)
- hauing moe wiues then one
- polish
- to deck, or make faire, smooth, sleeke, or shining
- pollute
- defile, or distaine, or make filthie
- pomegarnet (pomegranate), pomegranet (pomegranate)
- a kind of fruite
- pompe (pomp)
- the countenance of things in furniture, and setting foorth to the outward shewe
- ponderous
- weightie, heauie
- pontificall (pontifical)
- lordly, sumptuous, bishoplike
- portable
- that may be carried with ease
- popular
- seeking the fauour of the people by all meanes possible
- populus (populous)
- full of people
- popularitie (popularity)
- pleasing the people
- position
- a question to be disputed of
- posteritie (posterity)
- they that come after by birth the age after vs
- postscript
- written after
- potion
- a drinke
- (f) pourtrait (portrait)
- draw the forme, or proportion of a thing
- (g) practicall (practical), practique (practice), pragmaticall (pragmatical)
- practising
- (f) preamble
- forespeech, a flourish, entrance or assay
- precedent
- going before
- precept
- a rule giuen, an admonition, or commaundement
- precinct
- compasse appointed
- predecessor
- one that was in place before another
- predestinate
- to appoint before
- prediction
- afore telling, or prophecying
- predominate
- ruling
- preheminence (preeminence)
- excellent, rule, authoritie ouer others
- preface
- a speech before the matter it selfe
- prefigurate (prefigure)
- forshewe by a figure
- prefixed <prefix>
- set in the fore part
- pregnant
- wittie, substantiall, with child
- preiudicate [prejudicate]
- giuing his iudgment, before he knoweth the man, or matter
- preiudice [prejudice]
- hindering ones cause, sentence an opinion deliuered before knowledge of any thing
- preludium <prelude>
- an entrance to any thing
- premeditation
- thinking of a matter beforehand
- (f) premunire <praemunire>
- forfeiture of goods
- preoccupation
- a preuenting by speech or other wayes
- preordination
- appointing before
- preparatiue [preparative]
- that which maketh fit or prepareth
- preposterous
- disorder, froward, topsiteruie, setting the cart before the horse, as we vse to say
- prerogatiue [prerogative]
- priuiledge, or authoritie before another
- presage
- to tell before, to betoken, to foresee
- (g) presbitarie (presbytery)
- eldership
- prescience
- foreknowledge
- prescript
- decree, or assignement
- prescription
- limitation, or appointing a certaine compasse
- preseruatiue [preservative]
- that which defendeth
- president
- a chiefe, ruler next vnder the highest
- prest
- reacte
- presuppose
- faine a thing to be before it is
- pretermit
- to passe ouer, to forget willinglie
- preterlapsed
- passed, or gone past
- pretext
- an excuse, colour, or pretence
- preuarication [prevarication]
- collusion, or betraying of a cause or matter, for want of more earnest speech
- primitiue [primitive], primarie (primary)
- first, or formost or excellent
- prioritie (priority)
- being in the formost place, or in greater excellencie and superioritie then another
- pristine
- old, wonted, or accustomed
- priuation [privation]
- depriuing, vtter taking away or withdrawing
- priuiledge [priviledge] (privilege)
- prerogatiue, or liberty, more then others haue
- probable
- that may be easilie proued to be true
- probation
- alouance, tryall
- (g) probleme (problem)
- proposition, or sentence in manner of a question
- proceede (proceed)
- goe forth, or goe forward
- processe (process)
- proceeding, passing forward
- procliuitie [proclivitie] (proclivity)
- inclination to any thing
- proctcur (proctor)
- a factour, or solicitor
- procrastinate
- to defer, or delay
- prodigall (prodigal)
- too riotous in spending
- prodigious
- wonderfull, giuing an ill signe
- prodition
- betraying, treason
- profane
- vngodly, not consecrated, or vnhallowing that which was holy
- profound
- deepe, or high
- profunditie (profundity)
- deepenes
- profusion
- pouring out wastfully
- progenie (progeny)
- ofspring, generation, or issue of children
- progenitor
- a fore-father, or grandfather
- (g) prognosticate
- to know or giue out before-hand, or to tell afore-hand what shall happen
- progresse (progress)
- a going forward
- prohibit
- to forbid, or giue straight charge to the contrary
- proiect [project]
- a plot, or wise contriuing of any thing, or casting forth
- prolixe (prolix)
- tedious, long, or large
- prolocutor
- a speaker for another
- prologue
- a preface, or forespeech
- prolong
- stretch out, or defer
- promerit
- desert
- promote
- to honor or aduaunce to greater dignitie, and higher place
- prompt
- ready, quicke
- promulgation
- publishing openly, or proclaiming
- prone
- ready, or inclining
- (f) prowesse (prowess)
- valiantnesse
- propagate
- to enlarge, or multiply
- (g) prophecie (prophecy)
- foretell, or expound
- (g) prophet
- he that prophecieth
- propitiation
- a sacrifice to appease Gods displeasure
- propitiatorie (propitiatory)
- that which reconcileth, or which purchaseth mercie, at the mercie seate
- propitious
- not displeased, fauourable
- proportion
- equalnes, measure
- propose
- propound, set before, or shew
- proprietie (propriety)
- propertie, owing, or challenging as his owne, and none others
- proroge (prorogue)
- put off, prolong, deferre
- proscription
- a condemnation, or banishment proclaimed, or an open sale
- prose
- that writing which is not verse
- (g) proselite (proselyte)
- stranger conuerted to our religion or manners
- prosequute (prosecute)
- follow after, or finish
- prospect
- a sight a farre off
- prostitute
- set open for vncleanesse, to set foorth to sale
- prostrate
- to cast downe, or fall downe flat on the ground
- protect
- defend, saue, or couer
- protest
- to affirme, and declare openly
- protract
- deferre, or prolong, or draw out at length
- prouident [provident]
- forseeing with wise consideration, and prouiding aforehand
- prouinciall [provinciall] (provincial)
- iurisdiction, belonging to a prouince, or outcountry
- prouocation [provocation]
- prouoking, enforcing, vrging, pressing, or alluring
- prudence
- wisdome, wittinesse
- publicane (publican)
- a farmer, or common man of a Cittie
- (f) pulers {pulvers} (pulver)
- dust, or pouders
- puluirisated [pulvirisated] (pulverized) <pulverize>
- beaten, or broken into dust, or powder
- purifie (purify)
- purge, scoure, or make cleane
- (f) pursuit
- following after
- putrifie (putrify)
- to waxe rotten, or corrupted as a sore
- pulsillanimitie (pusillanimity)
- faint-hartednes, cowardlinesse
- (f) puissant
- strong, valiant
See Also
Main Entry,
Introduction,
A,
B,
C,
D,
E,
F,
G,
H,
I/J,
L,
M,
N,
O,
P,
Q,
R,
S,
T,
U/V