The Anglo-Saxon glossaries interpret the word by racu, a narrative, especially an epic recital, and this was the sense in which it was generally taken until late in the fourteenth or the fifteenth century.
The origin and development of the late classic and medieval glossaries preserved to us can be traced with certainty.
The study of glosses spread through the publication, in 1573, of the bilingual glossaries by H.
Of Latin glossaries of the first four centuries of the Roman emperors few traces are left, if we except Verrius-Festus.
To a special category of technical glossaries belongs a large and important class of works relating to the law-compilations of Justinian.
The form in which the three Erfurt glossaries have come down to us points back to the 8th century.
A peculiar feature of the late middle ages are the medico-botanic glossaries based on the earlier ones (see Goetz, Corp.
Of glossaries of this kind we have (1) the Glossae alphita (published by S.
Furthermore, the bilingual medico-botanic glossaries had their origin in old lists of plants, as Ps.
The first great glossary or collection of various glosses and glossariesis that of Salomon, bishop of Constance, formerly abbot of St Gall, who died A.
He extended it by copying into it vocabularies andglossaries borrowed from other scholars; he lent his own collection to be similarly copied by others.
But all the glossaries and vocabularies as yet mentioned were Latin-English; their primary object was not English, but the elucidation of Latin.
The most celebrated of the Greek glossaries is that of Suidas, of whom nothing is known.
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Elements of beauty were certainly, and perhaps are still, within it; but in proportion as we clear away the rubbish which encumbers it, the mass of glossaries necessary to interpret it fall in and bury it so as to stifle it afresh.
The use of these words in the Greek and Latin of the feudal times may be amply understood from the Glossaries of Ducange, (Græc.
Latin authors and mediaeval writers of glossaries took the word to mean "deceptive juggling tricks," and, as far as we know, did not use it in its present signification.
Preceded by a history of cant and vulgar language; with glossaries of two secret languages, spoken by the wandering tribes of London, the costermongers, and the patterers.
I have looked for the word in all the dictionaries and glossaries I could lay my hands upon, both in this country and abroad, but in vain.
From thence the word was extended to the general use, to the modern languages, and even to the style of the last Byzantines, (see the Greek and Latin Glossaries and Ducange.
Morsbach replies that there is no necessity for such a conclusion, since all the extant glossaries themselves date from times when h was already lost.
It is clear from a comparison of the glossaries that this confusion was later than the loss of h and also that it was almost, if not entirely, unknown to the archetype.
But in this case it is used to prove the existence of an archaic form for which none of the glossaries elsewhere present a parallel.
Now in order to form a just estimate of the value of any form which occurs in the glossaries it is obviously necessary to take it in connection with the forms which the other texts show in the same entry.
My reason for concluding that the loss of h occurred in the archetype was that in at least eight entries (probably several more) all three glossaries agree in showing forms without h.
The application of this term to the Epinal and Erfurt glossaries (or the archetype) seems to me to be open to grave objection.
There can be no doubt that the relationship between the three glossaries is as follows: x (Arch.
In the glossaries the word is used to translate Eurynis, Herinis (i.
It is to be remembered that in theseglossaries we are dealing not with independent documents but with copies made, more or less mechanically, from one original.
An important discovery was that the language of the oldest Glossariesseems to be Mercian.
The chief interest of these Glossaries lies in the fact that a small proportion of the hard words is explained, not in Latin, but in Mercian English, of which there are two examples in the six glosses here quoted.
It contains copious Notes, Comments and Glossariesexplaining every difficult passage and obsolete word.
Glossaries following each Play=, so that you do not have to turn to a separate volume to find the meaning of every obscure word.
This word does not occur in any of the usual Glossaries of Dictionaries.
The only instance in which strene occurs in the Glossaries is synonymously with strain, a race, descent, lineage.
A pretty full account of the Latin glossaries before and after Papias will be found in the preface to Ducange, p.
Edinburgh; and many curious explanations of Scottish words in the glossaries from John Davidson, Esq.
We know that local dialects have almost passed away, and yet some of the glossaries of them lately issued contain words that explain otherwise dark passages in manuscripts of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.
This word scurra, or some one similar, is represented in the Glossaries as the proper meaning of leccator (Fr.
The original Saxon verb has not been preserved in any other way, but the glossaries supply ryne for running; and in the old Islandic, runka signifies to agitate, to move.
Some of the Teutonic glossaries render the word necker by dæmon aquaticus, Neptunus.
Our Saxon glossaries afford no equivalent term, but it may perhaps exhibit a Teutonic origin in the German kerze, a light or candle, or even in the French cierge, from cereus, because the original materials were of wax.
The prefaces and glossaries given with each work contain an amount of valuable information not elsewhere to be obtained.
It is to such a process as this that we owe the Glossaries which form an interesting branch of Anglo-Saxon literature.
The work, in fact, contains a very large collection of words, in many variant forms, appearing in English literature and in Glossaries between A.
Spenser: Faery Queene, glossariesto Books I and II, 1887.
This work gives all the words and every form contained in the glossaries to eleven publications in the Clarendon Press Series, as below:-- S.
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