The D section of Robert Cawdrey's 1604 dictionary A Table Alphabeticall.

 

Not content with a mere transcription, I have also translated Cawdrey's 400 year old English into modern E2 English, through a process involving the OED, much research and many educated guesses.

The main entries may appear in as many as five parts :
          Original {Corrected} [Repaired] (Modern) <E2>

Original is exactly as it appears in Cawdrey.
Corrected fixes what I believe to be a typo.
Repaired swaps I with J, and U with V, as necessary for current alphabetic usage.
Modern gives the modern American spelling.
E2 removes plurals and verb endings and such, so it links to an existing node.

Each operation is performed on its left-hand neighbor. The results are omitted if nothing changed. Only the rightmost word is hard-linked.

A leading (f) indicates French origin, a leading (g) indicates Greek origin.

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See Also Main Entry, Introduction, A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I/J, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U/V

 

DAmnable
not to be allowed
(g) deacon
prouider for the poore
(g) demonaicke (demonic)
possessed with a deuill
deambulation
a walking abroade
(f) debate
strife, contention
debar
let
debilitie (debility)
weakenes, faintnes
(f) debonnayre (debonair)
gentle, curteous, affable
(g) decalogue
the ten commaundements
(g) decacordon (decachord)
an instrument with tenne strings
decent
comlie, or beseeming
decease
a departing, or giuing place too
decide
to determine, or make an end of
decipher
describe, or open the meaning or to count
decision
cutting away
declamation
an oration of a matter feyned
decline
fall away, or swarue from
decoction
liquor, wherein things are sod for phisicke
decorum
comlines
decrepite (decrepit)
very old
dedicate
to giue for euer
deduct
take or drawe out, abate, or diminish
(f) deface
blot out, staine, bring out of fashion
defame
to slaunder, or speake ill of
defect
want, fayling
(f) defie (defy)
distrust
define
to shew clearely what a thing is
deflower
dishonest, rauish, or disgrace
deformed
ill shapen, ill fauored
(f) defraude (defraud)
deceiue, beguile
(f) defraye (defray)
lay out, pay, discharge
degenerate
be vnlike his auncestours: to grow out of kind
dehort
mone or perswade from, to aduise to the contrarie
deitie (deity)
Godhead
deifie (deify)
make like God
delectation
delight, or pleasure
delegate
an imbassadour, or one appointed in anothers place
deliberate
to take good counsell
delineate
to drawe the proportion of any thing
delicate
daintie, giuen to pleasure
delude
deceiue, or laugh to scorne
(f) deluge
great floode, or ouer flowing of waters
delusion
mockerie, a deceitfull thing
demaund (demand)
request, aske
demerite (demerit)
deseruing, worthines
(g) democracie (democracy)
a common-wealth gouerned by the people
demonstrate
shew plainely, or openly, to point out or manifest
demenour (demeanor)
behauiour
(f) demurre (demur)
to stay, to linger, or vse delaies
denison (denizen)
free borne
denounce
declare, or giue warning of, or proclaime
denomination
a naming
depend, dependance
hang vpon
deplore
to lament or bewaile
deplume
to pull of the feathers
deportation
carrying away
depopulate
spoile, or wast
depose
put away, depriue, or put downe
depraue [deprave]
marre or corrupt, or make worse
deprecation
supplication, or requiring of pardon
depresse (depress)
to keepe downe
depriue [deprive]
see depose
depute
account, or esteeme
deride
mock, or laugh to scorne
derision
mocking
deriue [derive]
fetch from
deriuation [derivation];
taking away from some other matter
derogate
to take away, or to diminish
(f) desastrous (disastrous)
vnluckie, vnfortunate
descend
goe downe
describe
to write foorth, to copie out, or to declare
(f) deseigne (design), (f) deseignment (designment)
an appoynting how any thing shall be done
desert
wildernesse
desertion
a leauing, or forsaking
designe (design)
to marke out, or appoint for any purpose
desist
leaue off, or stay
desolate
left alone, or forsaken
desperate
without hope, or past hope
detect
bewray, disclose, accuse
destinated (destine)
appointed
destitute
forsaken
detest
hate greatly, or abhorre
deteined (detain)
withholden, or kept back
determine
resolue, conclude
detract
take from, or backbite
detriment
losse or hurt
detrude
thrust out, or from
deuote [devote]
to giue vnto, or appoint vnto
deuotion [devotion]
holinesse
(f) deuoyre [devoyre] (devoir)
dutie
dexteritie (dexterity)
aptnes, nimblenes
(g) diabolicall (diabolical)
deuillish
(g) diademe (diadem)
a Kings crowne
(g) diapason
a concorde in musick of all parts
diet
manner of foode
dialect
the manner of speech in any language, diuers from others
(g) dialogue
conference, or talking together
(g) diameter
a line, crossing the midst of any circle or figure
(g) didacticall (didactical)
full of doctrine or instruction
diffamation (defamation)
a slaundering, or speaking ill of
different
vnlikely, disagreeing
difficill (difficile), difficult
hard, vneasie dangerous
diffident
mistrustfull
diffude (diffuse)
poure out
digest
bring into order, to deuide, & distribute things into their right place
dignitie (dignity)
worthinesse
digresse (digress)
turne from, goe away
digression
departing from the matter in hand
dilacerate
to rent in sunder
dilate
enlarge, spread abroade, or to discourse vpon largely
(g) dilemma
a forked kinde of argument which on either side entrappeth
dimension
measuring
diminution
lessening
(g) diocesse (diocese)
iurisdiction
diocesan
that hath iurisdiction
direct
guide, or rule: right, straight, also to order
disable
make vnable, or finde fault with
disabilitie (disability)
vnablenes
(f) disaduantageous [disadvantageous]
hindering much
disanull (disannul)
make voyde, or bring to nothing
(f) disburse
lay out money
discent (descent)
comming downe from another
discerne (discern)
know, put one from another, or put difference
discide
cut off, or in peeces
discipline
instruction, or training vp
disciple
scholler
discipher (decipher)
to lay open, or make plaine
disclose
discouer, vtter, or manifest
(f) discomfiting (discomfit)
putting to flight
discord
disagreement, variance
discretion
wise choise of one from another
discusse (discuss)
examine, debate, or search narrowly into
disfigure
bring out of shape
(f) disfranchis (disfranchise)
take away freedome
disioyne [disjoyne] (disjoin)
vnioyne, or seperate
disiunction [disjunction]
a deuiding, or seperating
(f) disfranchised (disfranchise)
depriued of libertie
disgrade
to discharge of his orders, or degrees
(f) disguised (disguise)
counterfeited, seeming that it is not
dislocation
setting out of right place
(f) disloyall (disloyal)
one whom it is not good to trust vntrustie, trayterous
dismember
to pull and part one peece from another
dismisse (dismiss)
let passe, or send away
disparagement
hurt, hinderance, or disgrace
dispence (dispense)
to giue licence vnto
disperse
scatter, or spread abroade
dispeople
to vnpeople a place
displant
to pull vp by the rootes, trees planted
display
spread abroade
dispose
to set in order, to appoint
disposition
naturall inclination, or setting in order
dispoyle (despoil)
take away by violence, or rob
disputable
questionable, or doubtfull, that may be reasoned of
dissent
disagree, to be of a contrarie opinion
dissimilitude
vnlikenes
dissimulation
dissembling
dissipation
scattering abroade
dissolue [dissolve]
vnloose, or melte
dissoluble
easie to vnloose
dissolute
carelesse, rechlesse
dissolution
breaking, vnloosing
dissonant
disagreeing
distance
space betweene
distended (distend)
stretched out, or out of ioynt
distinguish
put difference, deuide, or point out from others
distillation, distilling (distill)
dropping downe by little and little
distinct
differing, or deuided
distinction
a difference, or seperation
distracted
drawne into diuerse parts
distribute
deuide in sunder, or to giue in sundrie parts
distribution
diuision, or laying out by parts
disturbe (disturb)
disquiet, let, or interrupt
disswade (dissuade)
to perswade to the contrarie
dittie (ditty)
the matter of a song
diuert [divert]
turne from, to another
diuine [divine]
Heauenly godly, also to gesse, coniecture, or prophesie
diuinitie [divinitie] (divinity)
heauenly, doctrine, also godhead
diuision [division]
parting, or seperating
diurnall (diurnal)
a daily mouing
divulgate
publish, or make common
docilitie (docility)
easie to be taught
doctrine
learning, or instruction
dolor
griefe, sorrow, or paine
dolorous
grieuous, or sorrowfull
(f) domage (damage)
losse, harme, or hinderance
domesticall (domestic)
at home, belonging to houshold: priuate
dominere (domineer)
rule, beare sway
domicilles (domicile)
houses
dominion, domination
rule, lordship or maistership
donatiue [donative]
a gift, in money or other things
dulcimur (dulcimer), dulcimar (dulcimer)
a kind of instrument
duarchy
the equall raigne of two princes together
driblets (driblet)
small debts
dulcifie (dulcify)
sweeten
dulcor
sweetnesse
durable
long lasting, or of long continuance

 

See Also Main Entry, Introduction, A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I/J, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U/V

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