vocabularium

plural vocabularia · plural vocabulariums

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   Bishop, the mind reader, is in delicate health. Trying to raise Bostonese thoughts out of the rubbish of the metaphysico-techical^([sic]) vocabularium did it.

   1886 December 30, “Persons and Personages”, in Omaha Daily World, volume II, number 110, Omaha, Neb.: World Publishing Co., page [2], column 2

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   I therefore want to know if a captain of volunteers is justified in applying to his superior officer language unbecoming an officer and a gentleman? If he is, then I would suggest that a regulation vocabulary should be served out to the whole force, so that officers and men may know the class of language an officer may be justified in applying to those of superior or inferior rank to himself. This would prevent a surprise, and all branches of the service would thoroughly comprehend the nature of orders given, no matter how much vocabularium, rhetoric or polite word-painting the most learned officer may lavish upon them in discharge of his arduous duties.

   1885 May 1, Loyalty [pseudonym], “Volunteer Insubordination”, in North Otago Times, volume XXVIII, number 3943, Oamaru, Otago, page [3], column 2

   “This,” said Mr. Esking, with a sly smile, “is a very early transcript of Archbishop Alfric’s vocabularium, and this other is sent to me by a friend at Brussels, who believes it to be that copy of the same work which was in possession of Rubens, the painter, missing ever since his death.”

   1886 May 8, Frederick Boyle, “[The Storyteller.] The Treasure of Thorburns. […] Chapter III. A Confidence.”, in The Queenslander, volume XXIX, number 554, Brisbane, Qld., page 729, column 3

   After perusing many of the horse vocabulariums through and through they at last decided upon the mascot name that will carry her safely to the front—they christened her “Daylight,” and we will look anxiously after her future record as though we held a half interest.

   1888 July 24, “The Mascot Filly”, in The Daylight, volume III, number 46, Concordia, Kan., page [3], column 4

   What Webster fails to describe to the possibilities of the game: It strengthens the leg muscles, improves the eyesight, induces deep breathing, tends to work off superfluous flesh and limbers up the vocabulary; it is especially good for the latter—after making one round with Frank and Dave we are forced to admit that their vocabularium is greatly improved, and should either of them lose their present situation they could qualify for a first-class mule skinner or a dock foreman.

   1919, Makin’ Paper, volume 2, page 37

   The Villanova library has two editions of the famous dictionary or vocabularium of Ambrose Calepini, an Austin Friar and lexicographer, who was born in 1435 and died in 1511. One impression is the work of Paulus Manutius, a noted scholar and printer of the Sixteenth Century. The book was printed in Rome in 1570, and it gives the vocabularium in five languages—Latin, Greek, French, Italian and Spanish. It is a folio bound in stamped pigskin over beechboards. The second book was printed in Vasle in 1582. This vocabularium was a recognized authority for the languages of Europe in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

   1930 March 9, “New Library Urged by Villanova Group: Adequate Protection for Rare Volumes and More Study Room Needed”, in Sunday Courier-Post, Camden, N.J., page fourteen, column 7