The A 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.
If an entry is marked with clueless, then my search for a modern version of the word has come up empty.
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
- (f) ABandon
- cast away, or yeelde vp, to leaue or forsake
- Abash
- blush
- abba
- father
- (f) abbesse (abbess), abbatesse (abbatess)
- Mistris of a Nunnerie, comforters of others
- (f) abbettors (abettor)
- counsellors
- aberration
- a going a stray, or wandering.
- abbreuiat [abbreviat] (abbreviate), (f) abbridge (abridge)
- to shorten, or make short
- (f) abbut (abut)
- to lie vnto, or border vpon, as one lands end meets with another
- abecedarie (abecedarian)
- the order of the Letters, or hee that vseth them
- aberration
- a going astray, or wandering
- (f) abet
- to maintaine
- abdicate
- put away, refuse, or forsake
- abhorre (abhor)
- hate, despise, or disdaine
- abiect [abject]
- base, cast away, in disdaine
- abiure [abjure]
- renounce, denie, forsweare
- abolish, abolited (abolition)
- make voyde, destroy, deface, or out of vse
- (f) abortiue [abortive]
- borne before the time
- abricot (apricot)
- a kind of kind of fruit
- abrogate
- take away, disanull, disallow
- abruptly
- vnorderly, without a preface
- absolue [absolve]
- finish, or acquite
- absolute
- perfect, or vpright
- absolution
- forgiuenes, discharge
- abstract
- drawne away from another: a litbooke or volume gathered out of a greater
- absurd
- foolish, irksome
- academie (academy)
- an Uniuersitie, as Cambridge, or Oxford
- academicke (academic)
- of the sect of wise and learned men
- accent
- tune, the rising or falling of the voice
- accept
- to take liking of, or to entertaine willingly
- (f) acceptance
- an agreeing to some former act done before
- accesse (access)
- free comming to, or a way to a place
- accessarie (accessary)
- partaker in the same thing
- (f) accessorie (accessory)
- an accident extraordinary
- accident
- a chance, or happening
- accidentall (accidental)
- falling by chance, not by nature
- accomodate (accommodate)
- to make fit too, or conuenient to the purpose
- (f) accomplish
- finish, or make an end of
- accommodating
- lending
- (f) account
- reckon
- (f) accord
- agreement betweene persons
- accurate
- curious, cunning, diligent
- (f) accrew (accrue)
- grow, increase, goe
- (f) acertaine (ascertain)
- make sure, certifie
- acetositie (acetous)
- sharpnes, or sowernesse
- (f) acheeue [acheeve] (achieve)
- to make an end of
- (f) acquitall (acquittal)
- discharge
- acquisition
- getting, purchasing
- (f) action
- the forme of a suite
- actiue [active]
- nimble, ready, quicke
- actuall (actual)
- in act, or shewing it selfe in deed
- acute
- sharp, wittie, quick
- adage
- an old speech, or prouerbe
- adamantine
- as hard as Diamont
- addict
- giuen too, appointed too
- adhaerent (adherent)
- cleauing to, or taking part with
- (f) adiew (adieu)
- farewell
- (f) addresse (address)
- prepare, or direct
- adiacint [adjacint] (adjacent)
- lying too, adioyning too
- adiunct [adjunct]
- an accidental qualitie, or any property, that is not a substance
- (f) adiourne [adjourne] (adjourn)
- deferre, or put off till another time
- adiure [adjure]
- make to sweare, or to deny
- administer
- gouerne, serue, or rule, or doe seruice vnto
- administrator
- one that doth busines for an other
- admire
- maruell at, or be in loue with
- admiration
- wonderment, reioycing
- (f) admirall (admiral)
- chiefe by sea, worthy
- admission
- receiuing, or leaue to enter into
a place, accept
- adopt
- to take for his child, freely to choose
- (f) adore
- worship, or reuerence
- adorne (adorn)
- beautifie, apparrell, prepare
- (f) aduaunce [advaunce] (advance)
- preferre, lift vp to honor
- aduent [advent]
- the comming
- aduerse [adverse]
- contrary, or backward
- (f) aduertise [advertise]
- giue knowledge, aduise, or counsell
- adulation
- flatterie, or fauning
- adulterate
- to counterfeit, or corrupt
- aduocate [advocate]
- a spokesman, atturney, or man of law, plead
- (f) aduousion [advousion] (advowson)
- patronage, or power to present, or giue a liuing
- adustion (adust)
- burning, or rosting
- affable
- readie, and curteous in speech, gracious in words
- (f) affaires (affaire)
- busines
- (f) affect
- to desire earnestly, or to mind
- affected
- disposed, inclined
- affinitie (affinity)
- kinne by marriage
- affirme (affirm)
- auouch, acertaine
- (f) affiance
- trust
- (f) affianced
- betrothed
- (f) affranchise
- set at libertie
- agent
- doer, a steward, or commissioner
- aggrauate [aggravate]
- make more grieuous, and more heauie
- agilitie (agility)
- nimblenes, or quicknes
- agglutinate
- to ioyne together
- agnition
- knowledge, or acknowledging
- agitate
- driuen, stirred, tossed
- (g) agonie (agony)
- heauie passion, anguish, griefe
- (f) aigre
- sharpe, sower
- akecorne (acorn)
- a kind of fruit
- alacritie (alacrity)
- cheerefulnes, liuelines
- alablaster (alabaster)
- a kind of stone
- alarum
- a sound to the battell
- alchimie (alchemy)
- the art of turning other mettals into gold
- (f) alien
- a stranger
- (f) alienate
- to estrange, or with-drawe the mind, or to make a thing another mans
- all haile all hail
- salute
- alledge (allege)
- bring proofe
- allegation
- alledging
- (g) allegorie (allegory)
- similitude, a misticall speech, more then the bare letter
- (f) allegiance
- obedience of a subiect
- allienate (alienate)
- asswage, or make more easie and light
- (f) alliance
- kindred, or league
- allusion
- meaning and pointing to another matter then is spoken in words
- allude
- to speake one thing that hath resemblence and respect to another
- aliment
- nourishment, sustenance
- (g) alpha
- the first Greeke letter
- (g) alphabet
- order of letters in the crosserow
- altercation
- debate, wrangling, or contention
- altitude
- height
- amaritude
- bitternesse
- ambage (ambages)
- long circumstance of words
- (f) ambassadour (ambassador)
- messenger
- ambition
- desire of honour, or striuing for preferment
- ambodexter (ambidextrous)
- one that playeth on both hands
- ambiguous
- doubtfull, vncertaine
- (f) ambushment
- priuie traine, lying secretly to intrap by the way
- (f) amerce, amercement
- fine, or penalty
- amiable
- louely, or with a good grace
- amitie (amity)
- friendship, loue
- amorous
- full of loue, amiable
- (f) amorte (amort)
- dead, extinguished, without life
- amplifie (amplify)
- enlarge, or make bigger
- (g) analogie (analogy)
- conuenience, proportion
- (g) analisis (analysis)
- resolution, deuiding into parts
- (g) anarchie (anarchy)
- when the land is without a
prince, or gouerner
- (g) anatomie (anatomy)
- cutting vp of the body
- (g) anathema
- accursed or giuen ouer to the deuill
- anchoue [anchove] (anchovy)
- a kind of fruite
- (f) angle
- corner
- (f) anguish
- griefe
- angust
- straight, narrow
- animate
- encourage
- animaduersion [animadversion]
- noting, considering, or marking
- annalis (annals)
- chronicles of things from yeare to yeare
- annex
- to knit or ioyne together
- annihilate
- make voyd, or bring to nothing
- anniuersarie [anniversarie] (anniversary)
- a yeares minde, or done and comming yearely
- annuall (annual)
- yearely
- anthem
- song
- antecessor
- an auncestour, or predecessour that goeth or liueth in the age or place before vs
- (g) antichrist
- against, or contrarie to Christ
- anticipation
- preuenting by a foreknowledge
- (g) antidote
- a counterpoise, or remedy against poyson.
- (f) antidate (antedate)
- a fore date
- (g) antipathie (antipathy)
- contrarietie of qualities
- antiquitie (antiquity)
- auncientnes
- anticke (antic)
- disguised
- (g) antithesis
- a repugnancie, or contrarietie
- antiquarie (antiquary)
- a man skilled, or a searcher of antiquities
- annotations (annotation)
- briefe doctrines or instructions
- anxitie (anxiety)
- care or sorrow
- (g) aphorisme (aphorism)
- generall rule in phisick
- (g) apocalipse (apocalypse)
- reuelation
- (g) apocrypha
- not of authoritie, a thing hidden, whose originall is not knowne
- (g) apologie (apology)
- defence, or excuse by speech
- (g) apostotate (apostate)
- a backslider
- (g) apostacie (apostasy)
- falling away, backslyding, rebellion
- (g) apostle
- an ambassadour, or one sent
- (g) apothegme (apothegm)
- short wittie sentence, or speech
- apparant (apparent)
- in sight, or open
- appall
- feare.
- apparition
- appearance, or strange sight
- (f) appeach (impeach)
- accuse, or bewray
- (f) appeale (appeal)
- to seeke to a higher Iudge
- (f) appease
- quiet, or pacifie
- appendix
- hanging, or belonging to another thing
- appertinent (appurtenant), appurtenance
- belonging vnto another thing
- appetite
- desire to any thing
- applaude (applaud)
- to shew a liking of, as it were by clapping of hands
- application
- applying too, or resorting to
- appose
- to aske questions, oppose
- apposition
- adding or setting too
- apprehension
- conceite, and vnderstanding
- approbation
- allowance, or liking
- appropriate
- to take, and keepe to, and for himselfe alone
- approue [approve]
- alowe, or make good
- approch (approach)
- come nigh
- apt
- fit
- arbiter, arbitratour (arbitrator)
- a Iudge in a controuersie betwixt men
- (f) arbitrement (arbitrament)
- iudgement, censure, award
- (g) arch
- chiefe.
- (g) arch-angell (archangel)
- chiefe angell
- archbishop
- chiefe bishop
- architest (architect)
- chiefe builder
- ardent
- hoate, earnest
- ardencie (ardency)
- heate, earnestnes
- argent
- siluer, coyne
- argue
- to reason
- ariditie (aridity)
- drinesse
- (g) aristocratical (aristocratic)
- gouernement of a kingdome by the peares and nobility
- (g) arithmeticke (arithmetic)
- art of numbring
- arke (ark)
- shippe or chest
- (f) armorie (armory)
- house of armour
- (f) arrerages (arrearage)
- debt vnpaid, or things left vndone and duties comming behind
- arrest
- stay, or lay hold of
- arride
- to please well, to content
- (f) arriue [arrive], arriuall [arrivall] (arrival)
- come to land, or approch
- arrogate
- to claime, or challenge
- arrogant
- proude, presumptuous
- artifice
- skill, subtiltie: or a cunning peece of worke
- artificer
- handicrafts-man
- artificially
- workmanlike, cunningly
- articulate
- ioynted, set together, or to point out, and distinguish
- artichok (artichoke)
- a kind of herbe
- (f) artillery
- engines or instruments for war
- ascend
- goe vp, or clime vp
- ascent
- a going vp
- ascribe
- giue to, adde to, attribute vnto
- askey (askew), asquint
- looking aside, or awry
- (f) assay
- proofe, or a triall
- assent
- agreement, or consent
- assertaine (ascertain)
- assure: certaine
- assentation
- flattery: speaking faire
- aspect
- looking vpon, beholding much, sight
- aspectable
- worthie, or easie to be seene
- asperat (asperate)
- rough, sharpe, or vnpleasant
- asperation (aspiration)
- breathing
- aspire
- climbe vp, or come to, or high
- (f) assault, (f) assaile (assail)
- to set vpon, or to proue
- (f) assemble
- gather together
- assemblie (assembly)
- companie
- assent
- consent
- assertion
- affirming, auouching of any thing
- asseueration [asseveration]
- earnest affirming
- assiduitie (assiduity)
- continuance, diligence
- assigne (assign)
- appoint, ordaine
- assignation
- appointment
- assimulate (assimilate)
- to make like, to compare with
- assistance
- helpe
- association
- ioyning together in fellowship.
- associate
- to accompanie, or follow
- (f) assoyle (assoil)
- excuse, cleare
- astipulation (stipulation)
- an auouching, or witnessing of a thing, an agreement
- astrictiue [astrictive], astringent
- binding, or ioyning together
- (g) astronomie (astronomy), astrologie (astrology)
- knowledge of the starres
- (g) astrolabe
- an instrument to know the motion of the starres
- (g) atheist, atheall (atheistical)
- without, God, or beleeuing that there is no God, or denying any of his attributes
- (g) atheisme (atheism)
- the opinion of the atheist
- (f) attach
- sease vpon, rest or hold
- (f) attaint
- conuict of crime
- (f) attainder
- a conuiction, or prouing guiltie of a crime or fault
- (f) attempt
- set vpon, or take in hand
- attendance
- watching, staying for, or wayting vpon
- attentiue [attentive]
- heedie, or marking
- attenuate
- to make thinner or weaker
- attest
- to witnesse, or call to witnesse
- attrap (trap)
- ensnare
- attribute
- giue to, or impute
- auarice [avarice]
- couetousnes, or inordinate desire of money
- auburne (auburn)
- a kind of colour
- audience
- hearing, or hearkening, or those that heare
- audacious
- bold, rash, or foolish hardie
- auditor
- hearer, or officer of accounts
- audible
- easie to be heard
- auer [aver]
- auouch, call to witnes, proue
- auert [avert]
- to turne from, or keepe away
- augment
- to encrease
- auguration (augur)
- guessing, or coniecturing at things to come
- (f) avowable (allowable)
- that which may be allowed and affirmed
- (f) avouch
- affirme with earnest, defend
- auoke [avoke] (evoke)
- to call from, or pull back
- austere
- sharpe, rough, cruell
- (g) authenticall (authentic)
- of authoritie, allowed by authoritie: the originall
- autumne (autumn)
- the haruest
- (g) axiome (axiom)
- a certaine principle, or general ground of any Art
- ay
- euer, at any time, for euer
- azure
- a kind of of colour.
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