WITHDRAWN -- Re: [ADS-L] "malaria" (oddly defined), 1715; antedates OED2 1740--

[Joel S. Berson]

A blunder of mine.  In my search I had seen (and ignored) several 
false positives where GBooks had "malaria" but the page clearly had 
"malacia".  But --

1)  Upon enlarging, my predisposition to find malaria helped convince 
me the 5th letter was indeed a (lower case) R;

2)   I hadn't bothered to see what "malacia" meant.  In the OED I 
would have found definitions for "malacia" matching the Dictionarium's.

3)   I overlooked checking where my "malaria" was placed in this 
alphabetically-ordered dictionary!  You get one guess.

Blush!
Joel

At 7/31/2014 09:56 AM, Dan Goncharoff wrote:

>This link suggests the word is "malacia":
>
>http://books.google.com/books?id=Td1EAAAAcAAJ&dq=Malaria%2C%20a%20Calm&pg=PA84#v=onepage&q=Malaria,%20a%20Calm&f=false
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>DanG
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>On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 9:45 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
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> > Subject:      "malaria" (oddly defined), 1715; antedates OED2 1740--
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> > "Malaria, a Calm when the sea is quiet and still : also a queasiness,
> > or squeamishness of Stomach : Also a tenderness of body."
> >
> > This definition does not fit the OED's at all, as far as I can
> > tell.  ("Malaria" seems an accurate OCR rendering, with the possible
> > exception of the last letter, which is smudgy.)
> >
> > John Kersey.  Dictionarium Anglo-Britannicum; or, A General English
> > Dictionary."  The Second Edition, Corrected.  London, Printed by J.
> > Wilde [etc.]  1715.  Pages not numbered.  (The first edition is 1708.)
> >  GBooks.
> >
> > Joel
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