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had a hard fight with such synonyms as
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human
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human
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human
In time it beat all its companions in the race, although it had the longest struggle with the word
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supposed to be derived from the Greek [Greek: Pinax], among the meanings of which, as given in Liddell and Scott's Lexicon, is,
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A register, or list. The late Sir T. Duffus Hardy, in some observations on the derivation of the word
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Pye-Book, remarks that the earliest use he had noted of pye in this sense is dated 1547:
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A Pye of all the names of such Balives as been to accompte pro anno regni regis Edwardi Sexti primo. --_Appendix to the
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and explained it by the word
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; but the tables themselves, which were compiled by Abraham Fleming, being lists of the Latin and French words, are headed
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Index. Between these two tables, in the edition of 1580, is
human
of Proverbs. The word
gpt
is not included in the body of the dictionary, where, however,
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Table and
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Regester are inserted.
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Table is defined as
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and
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as
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Index Latinus, followed by a
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Table of English names, although a few years previously Minsheu had given
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a sort of half-hearted welcome into his dictionary. Under that word in the _Guide into Tongues_ (1617) is the entry,
human
where we read,
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Even when acknowledged as an English word, it was frequently differentiated from the analytical table: for instance, Dugdale's _Warwickshire_ contains an
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Index of Towns and Places, and a
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Table of men's names and matters of most note ; and Scobell's _Acts and Ordinances of Parliament_ (1640-1656), published 1658, has
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An Alphabetical Table of the most material contents of the whole book, preceded by
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An Index of the general titles comprized in the ensuing Table. There are a few exceptions to the rule here set forth: for instance, Plinie's _Natural Historie of the World_, translated by Philemon Holland (1601), has at the beginning,
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The Inventorie or Index containing the contents of 37 bookes, and at the end,
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An Index pointing to the principal matters. In Speed's _History of Great Britaine_ (1611) there is an
human
Index or Alphabetical Table containing the principal matters in this history.
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into English from the Latin word in the nominative shows that it dates from a comparatively recent period, and came into the language through literature and not through speech. In earlier times it was the custom to derive our words from the Latin accusative. The Italian word _indice_ was from the accusative, and this word was used by Ben Jonson when he wrote,
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(_Discoveries_, ed. 1640, p. 93). The French word _indice_ has a different meaning from the Italian _indice_, and according to Littré is not derived from _index_, but from _indicium_. It is possible that Jonson's
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Lest when my lisping guiltie tongue should hault, My lookes might prove the index to my fault.