NEW .A.
ENGLISH
DICTIONARY
ON HISTORICAL PRINCIPLES. (V OLUME V II 1.
Q-S H.)
SEE - SENATORY.
BY
HEN R Y
BRA D LEY,
HOK. M.A.,
PH.D.,
F.RA.
NOTE.
THIS single section (72 p ages) includes 1285 M ai n words, 169 Sp ecial Combinations explained unner these, and .P3
Subordinate entries; in all 1877.
The obvious combina t o n s recorded and illustrated number
1 (16 %) are marked t as
Of the Main words 2 3
J oh n son 's
Comparison with Dr.
i
obsolete, and
1000,
mak i n g
a
total of 2077.
are marked II as alien or not fully naturalized.
and some recent Dictionaries g i ves the following fig ure s;-
Johnson.
\Vord. recorded, See to
32 (2! %)
Senator),
Words illustrated by quotations
Number of illustrative quotations
, E.nc
cl��Jic" ,;
i
Century' Diet.
Funk's' Standard'.
Here.
2g77 133
1046
1084
1171
98
346
370
85
246.', 386
435
750
115
9004 * Including the Supplement of
1902. of Richardson
The numher of qnotations in the corresponding portion
is
277. The words of Old Engl i sh origin , with their compounds and deri vatives, occupy about half the space of the s e ction .
This is partly owing to the pro fusi o n of the compounds of self (all, with one or t wo exceptions , introduced since
1550), wh ich fill sixteen
found in the collected quotations .
and the cognate adj. seemly.
se nse-
There are se v er al native words showing remarkable
v a ri ety
of senses, as see, seek, seethe,
The Scandi n a vi an element of the language is main ly represented by the im po r tant verb seem
sell vbs., seed sb., seely adj.
on account of their
abou t
pages, although only a small selection has been given from the innumerable obvious combinations
The words of French derivation are numerous, and some of them are of considerable interest
history
or of particular applications, as seize vb. and the cognate seisin, see sb., seigmur and it s
derivatives, semblance and its cognates.
Of the words derived from Latin, direc tly or t hrough French lea r ned forms, the
most important are segment, segregate, select, seminary, senate, and their respective cognates .
The Latin prefix semi- has in
modern times come to be treated as an English formative, capable of unlimited appli cation; the sele c tion he re given from
Of Greek etymology are seismic and the related te rms
the words formed with this prefix occupies about seven pages.
to earthquakes, selenography and other words referring to the moon, selenium, semanbc, semaslo!ogy, sematology,
There are a few adopt i ons from non-European languages; the Hebrew selah, the Arabic semsem,
re ferring
semeiography, semelo!og)'.
the In dian seer' and seersucker (the e tym ology of this is for the first time correctly given), and the A merican seecatch.
The articles on the compound s of seif and the words with the prefix semi- were p repared by Mr. C. T. Onions, M.A.
EMENDATIONS.
BLUNDEVIL Ext,'cises IV. (1597)
Plancius his Map, This Countrey is inhabited of
height 4 foote as those be of
in
Dwarfes called in Latine Pigmei, being
Groynland, which are called Screlings [printedSerelings, edd. 1622, 1637
Screa.ling.
270, Deser.
SereelillgsJ.
Seeker
Earlier example :-1594
if P.
1 h.
The
date
and
authorship of
the
first
quotation seem to
be highly
questionable. The passage qnoted from Pagitt 1645 appears
to contain the earliest known example of the nse of the word as the
designation of a sect, though the opinion there described was held by the
three brothers Legate (c 1600), whose followers were called Legatine­
Arians. (See C. Burrage, The Early English Dissenters, 1912, 1. 214-6,
259-61, and App. A.