Casher, Shofar, Meshummad, Notaricon (1830, maybe 1816)

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MODERN JUDAISM:
OR, A BRIEF ACCOUNT OF THE OPINIONS, TRADITIONS, RITES, AND CEREMONIES OF THE JEWS IN MODER NTIMES
by John Allen
Second edition: Revised and Corrected
London: R. B. Seeley and W. Brunside
1830
(First edition 1816--ed.)

   No one ever read this?  Amazing.

Pg. 71:  It was called _The Shield of David;_  the inscription _Agla_ is composed of the initials of four Hebrew words.
(The "Mogen Dovid" is drawn here, although those words are not used--ed.)

Pg. 76:  But the principal branches of the _literal_ Cabbala are three, denominated _Gematria_, _Notaricon_, and _Temura_.

Pg. 77:  _Notaricon_ is a term borrowed from the ROmans, among whom the _notarii_, notaries or short hand writers, were accustomed to use single letters to signify whole words, with other methods of abbreviation.
(OED has 1880 for "notaricon"--ed.)

Pg. 139:  One of their most common terms of reproach is (Hebrew lettering of following word--ed.)  _Meshummad_; which signifies a person ruined and destroyed; and the imprecation that generally follows is (Hebrew lettering--ed.) _Jemach Shemo Vesicro;_  Let his name and memory be blotted out.
(The revised OED has 1892 for "meshumad"--ed.)

Pg. 160:  ...(Psal. lxv. 2) "O thou that hearest prayer;" that is the prayer of the angel, who is the _Mashal_, or guardian of men.
("Mashal" is not in the revised OED?--ed.)

Pg. 403:  Among other reasons for it, the following is assigned in one of the prayers: thy people are assembled to supplicate thee: they blow and sound the shouphar, as it is said in thy law, to confound the accuser, Satan, that he may not be able to accuse them before thee.
(There is a citation of PRAYER FOR THE NEW YEAR, pg. 196.  OED and Merriam-Webster have 1833 for "shofar"--ed.)

Pg. 421:  If he finds the least blemish of any kind, the whole carcase is rejected as unfit for Jewish tables.  If it is found in the state required, he affixes to it a leaden seal, on one side of which is the word (Hebrew lettering--ed.) _Casher_ which signifies _right_, and on the other the day of the week in Hebrew characters.

(I'll have to see if "Casher" is there in 1816--ed.)