| Transcriber's note: | A few citations from earlier glossaries printed keywords in Blackletter font. These have
been rendered as Bold Italics in this edition. The printed book contains over 300 minor typographical errors, many (but not all) in the citations: these have NOT been attempted to be corrected. |
A GLOSSARY
OF
ANGLO-INDIAN COLLOQUIAL
WORDS AND PHRASES
AND OF
KINDRED TERMS
["Wee have forbidden the severall Factoryes from wrighting words in this languadge and refrayned itt our selves, though in bookes of coppies we feare there are many which by wante of tyme for perusall we cannot rectefie or expresse."—Surat Factors to Court, Feb. 26, 1617: I. O. Records: O. C. No. 450. (Evidently the Court had complained of a growing use of "Hobson-Jobsons.")]
"Οὐδὲ γὰρ πάντως τὴν αὐτήν διασώζει διάνοιαν μεθερμηνευόμενα τὰ ὀνόματα ἀλλ' ἔστι τινὰ, καὶ καθ' ἕκαστον ἔθνος ἰδιώματα ἀδύνατα εἰς ἄλλο ἔθνος διὰ φωνῆς σημαίνεσθαι"—Iamblichus, De Mysteriis, vii. cap. v.