17th century: abduction, abstemious, acclaim, accretion, acquiesce, adept, adventitious, ancillary, apparatus, apposite, armament, atmosphere, atrocious, calculus, capillary, carnivorous, castigate, cathartic, chrysalis, decimal, delinquent, derelict, diploma, discriminate, dogma, elastic, emissary, emollient, farrago, fatuous, fluctuate, formula, fulcrum, garrulous, graphic, hallucination, hesitate, hieratic, innuendo, mereticious, miscellaneous, nascent, noxious, ornithology, parahernalia, phenomenon, philanthropy, primogeniture, recondite, stagnant, tendency, torpor, turgid
18th century: adjuducate, affiliate, amorphous, antiseptic, aroma, habitat, inertia, minutiae, moribund, nucleus, prospectus, ultimatum.
18th century: aphrodisiac, bathos.
alliteration, anaphora, antithesis, apostrophe, hemistich, hendiadys, hexameter, hyperbole, iambus, irony, litotes, metonymy, onomatopoeia, oxymoron, pentameter, periphrasis, trochee, trope, zeugma
New Formations from Latin or Greek elements
17th century: barometer, microphone (‘an instrument by which small sounds can be intensified’)
18th century: heliography (‘description of the sun’)
17th century: accolade, adjust, adroit, aggrandise, alert, ammunition, altitude, avenue, balustrade, barricade, bayonet, bizarre, brigade, brilliant, brusque, buccaneer, bulletin, bureau, cajole, campaign, cascade, chandelier, charlatan, dragoon, effete, façade, grimace, marauder, nonchalance, omelette, parade, rapport, tableau
18th century: amateur, assonance, aubergine, avalanche, banal, barque, bassoon, bonhomie, boudoir, brochure, carafe, caramel, carbon, casserole, début, echelon, élite, etiquette, guillotine, malaise, mentor, nuance, ostensible, outré, predilection, ration, recherché, reconnaissance, terrain, mauve, mayonnaise, mirage, monocle, mousse, picaresque, rapprochement, renaissance,
17th century: balcony, baritone, broccoli, chiaroscuro, gambit, incognito, lagoon, opera, portico, regatta, sonata, virtuoso
18th century: al fresco, aria, arpeggio, ballerina, bravura, cantata, casino, concerto, dilletante, impressario, libretto, obbligato, oratorio, pianoforte, portfolio, soprano, tempo, viola.
17th century: alligator, avocado, barbecue, cargo, matador, siesta, vanilla
18th century: bolero, fandango, flotilla, stevedore
17th century: brandy, easel, knapsack, slim, smuggle
18th century: roster
17th century: hamster, plunder, sauerkraut
18th century: cobalt, quartz, waltz
17th century: bungalow, chintz, juggernaut, pundit
18th century: shampoo
18th century: whisky
A Table Alphabeticall, conteyning and teaching the true writing, and vnderstanding of hard vsuall English wordes, borrowed from the Hebrew, Greeke, Latine, or French, &c. With the interpretation thereof by plaine English words, gathered for the benefit & helpe of Ladies, Gentlewomen, or any other vnskilfull persons. Whereby they may the more easilie and better vnderstand many hard English wordes, which they shall heare or read in Scriptures, Sermons, or elsewhere, and also be made able to vse the same aptly themselues.
A New English Dictionary: Or, a Compleat Collection of the Most Proper and Significant Words, Commonly used in the Language; With a Short and Clear Exposition of Difficult Words and Terms of Art. The whole digested into Alphabetical Order; and chiefly designed for the benefit of Young Scholars, Tradesmen, Artificers, and the Female Sex, who would learn to spell truely; being so fitted to every Capacity, that it may be a continual help to all that want an Instructer.
Of air-born honey, gift of heaven, I now
Take up the tale. Upon this theme no less
Look thou, Maecenas, with indulgent eye.
A marvellous display of puny powers,
High-hearted chiefs, a nation's history,
Its traits, its bent, its battles and its clans,
All, each, shall pass before you, while I sing.
Slight though the poet's theme, not slight the praise,
So frown not heaven, and Phoebus hear his call.