klo: paideia} and {Greek: enkyklios
paideia}, but had no such composite word as {Greek: enkyklopadeia}.
We gather however from these expressions, as from Lord Bacon's
using the term 'circle-learning' (='orbis doctrinae', Quintilian),
that 'encyclopaedia' did not exist in their time. [But
'encyclopedia' occurs in Elyot, _Governour_, 1531, vol. i, p. 118
(ed. Croft); 'encyclopaedie' in J. Sylvester, _Workes_, 1621, p.
660.]
{60} See the passages quoted in my paper, _On some Deficiencies in our
English Dictionaries_, p. 38.
{61} [This prediction has been verified. 'Ethos' is used by Sir F.
Palgrave, 1851, and in the 'Encyclopaedia Britannica', 1875.
N.E.D.]
{62} We may see the same progress in Greek words which were being
incorporated in the Latin. Thus Cicero writes {Greek: antipodes}
(_Acad._ ii, 39, 123), but Seneca (_Ep._ 122), 'antipodes'; that
is, the word for Cicero was still Greek, while in the period that
elapsed between him and Seneca, it had become Latin: so too Cicero
wrote {Greek: eido:lon}, the Younger Pliny 'idolon', and Tertullian
'idolum'.
{63} [This rash prophecy has not been fulfilled. English speakers are
still no more inclined to say 'pre/stige' than 'po/lice'.]
{64} See in Coleridge's _Table Talk_, p. 3, the amusing story of John
Kemble's stately correction of the Prince of Wales for adhering to
the earlier pronunciation, 'obl_ee_ge,'--"It will become your royal
mouth better to say obl_i_ge."
{65} "In this great _acade/my_ of mankind".
Butler, _To the Memory of Du Val_.
{66} "'Twixt that and reason what a nice _barrier_".
{67} [A fairly complete collection of these and similar semi-naturalized
foreign words will be found in _The Stanford Dictionary of
Anglicized Words_, edited by Dr. C. A. M. Fennell, 1892.]
{68} [This is quite wrong. Mr. Fitzedward Hall shows that 'inimical' was
used by Gaule in 1652, as well as by Richardson in 1758 (_Modern
English_, p. 287). The N.E.D. quotes an instance of it from Udall
in 1643.]
{69} [The word had been already naturalized by H. More, 1647, Cudworth,
1678, Tucker 1765, and Carlyle, 1831.--N.E.D.]
{70} [The earliest citation for 'abnormal' in the N.E.D. is dated 1835.
The older word was 'abnormous'. Curious to say it is unrelated to
'normal' to which it has been assimila
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