See also:

• URQUHART, DAVID (1805-1877)
• URQUHART, or URCHARD, SIR THOMAS (1611-166o)

URQUHART, or URCHARD, See also:

• SIR

SIR See also:

• THOMAS
• THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
• THOMAS (d. 110o)
• THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
• THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
• THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
• THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
• THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
• THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
• THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
• THOMAS, ST
• THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
• THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)

THOMAS (1611-166o)  , Scottish author and translator of See also:

• RABELAIS, FRANCOIS (c. 1490—1553)

Rabelais, was the son of See also:

• SIR

Sir See also:

• THOMAS
• THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
• THOMAS (d. 110o)
• THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
• THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
• THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
• THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
• THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
• THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
• THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
• THOMAS, ST
• THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
• THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)

Thomas See also:

• URQUHART, DAVID (1805-1877)
• URQUHART, or URCHARD, SIR THOMAS (1611-166o)

Urquhart of See also:

• CROMARTY
• CROMARTY, GEORGE MACKENZIE, 1ST EARL OF (1630-1714)

Cromarty, the representative of a very See also:

• ANCIENT
• ANCIENT (also spelt ANTIENT; derived, through the Fr. ancien, old, from the late Lat. antianum, from ante, before)

ancient See also:

• FAMILY

family, and of See also:

• CHRISTIAN
• CHRISTIAN, WILLIAM (1608-1663)

Christian, daughter of the See also:

• FOURTH

fourth See also:

• LORD
• LORD (O. Eng. hldford, i.e. hldfweard, the warder or keeper of bread, hlIf, loaf; the word is not represented in any other Teutonic language)
• LORD, JOHN (1810-1894)

Lord See also:

• ELPHINSTONE, MOUNTSTUART (1779-1859)
• ELPHINSTONE, WILLIAM (1431-1514)

Elphinstone . Sir Thomas was hard pressed by his creditors, and after See also:

• PART

part of the family See also:

• ESTATE (through O. Fr. estat, mod. flat, from Lat. status, state, condition, position, stare, to stand)

estate had been alienated received sL a " See also:

• LETTER (through Fr. lettre from Lat. littera or litera, letter of the alphabet; the origin of the Latin word is obscure; it has probably no connexion with the root of linere, to smear, i.e. with wax, for an inscription with a stilus)

letter of See also:

• PROTECTION

protection " from his creditors from See also:

• CHARLES
• CHARLES (1270-1325)
• CHARLES (1421-1461)
• CHARLES (1525-1574)
• CHARLES (c. 1319-1364)
• CHARLES (Fr. Charles; Span. Carlos; Ital. Carlo; Ger. Karl; derived from O.H.G. Charal,latinized as Carolus, meaning originally " man ": cf. Mod.Ger., Kerl," fellow," A.S. ceorl, Mod. Eng. " churl ")
• CHARLES (KARL EITEL ZEPHYRIN LUDWIG; in Rum. CAROL)
• CHARLES [KARL ALEXANDER] (1712-1780)
• CHARLES, ELIZABETH (1828-1896)
• CHARLES, JACQUES ALEXANDRE CESAR (1746-1823)
• CHARLES, THOMAS (1755-1814)

Charles I. in 1637 . In the same See also:

• YEAR

year, his son Thomas and a younger one were accused of forcibly detaining their See also:

• FATHER

father in an upper See also:

• ROOM

room, but the See also:

• MATTER

matter was settled without further proceedings . Thomas was educated at See also:

• KING
• KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
• KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
• KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
• KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
• KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
• KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
• KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
• KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
• KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
• KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
• KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)

King's See also:

• COLLEGE (Collegium)

College, See also:

• ABERDEEN
• ABERDEEN, GEORGE GORDON, 1ST EARL O (1637-1720)
• ABERDEEN, GEORGE HAMILTON GORDON, 4TH EARL

Aberdeen, spending his spare See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time in the pursuit of See also:

• PHYSICAL

physical See also:

• SCIENCE (Lat. scientia, from scire; to learn, know)

science . On leaving the university he travelled over See also:

• EUROPE

Europe, succeeded to his embarrassed See also:

• INHERITANCE

inheritance, and got together a remarkable library, which, however, See also:

• FELL
• FELL, JOHN (1625-1686)

fell into the hands of his creditors . All his later See also:

• LIFE

life was disturbed by pecuniary and See also:

• POLITICAL

political difficulties . He was an enthusiastic Royalist; and, so far as religious matters went, his principles may be judged from his favourite See also:

• SIGNATURE (through Fr. from Lat. signature, signare, to sign, signum, mark, token, sign)

signature, " C . P.," for Christianus Presbyteromastix . He took part in the " Trot of See also:

• TURRIFF

Turriff " in 1639, and was rewarded by being knighted on 7th See also:

• APRIL

April 1641 by the king's own See also:

• HAND
• HAND (a word common to Teutonic languages; cf. Ger. Hand, Goth. handus)
• HAND, FERDINAND GOTTHELF (1786-185r)

hand at See also:

• WHITEHALL

Whitehall . He took occasion by this visit to See also:

• LONDON

London to see through the See also:

• PRESS (through Fr. presse from Lat. pressare, frequentative of premere, to crush, squeeze, press)

press his first See also:

• WORK

work, a collection of Epigrams of no See also:

• GREAT

great merit . Four years later, in 1645, he produced a See also:

• TRACT (from Lat. tractare, to treat of a matter, through Provencal tractat and Ital. trattato)

tract called Trissotetras, a See also:

• TREATISE

treatise on logarithms, adjusted to a See also:

• KIND (O. E. ge-cynde, from the same root as is seen in " kin," supra)

kind of memoria technica, like that of the scholastic See also:

• LOGIC (Xoy1K7, sc. rixvrt, the art of reasoning)

logic . In 1649 he was proclaimed a See also:

• REBEL, JOHANN PETER (176o-1826)

rebel and traitor at the See also:

• CROSS

Cross of See also:

• EDINBURGH

Edinburgh for taking part in the abortive rising at See also:

• INVERNESS

Inverness on behalf of Charles II. in that year; but no active proceedings were taken against him .

He took part in the See also:

• MARCH
• MARCH (1) (from Fr. marcher, to walk; the earliest sense in French appears to be " to trample," and the origin has usually been found in the Lat. marcus, hammer; Low Lat. marcare, to hammer; hence to beat the road with the regular tread of a soldier: cf.
• MARCH, AUZIAS (c. "1395-1458)
• MARCH, EARLS OF
• MARCH, FRANCIS ANDREW (1825– )

march to See also:

• WORCESTER
• WORCESTER, EARLS AND MARQUESSES OF
• WORCESTER, JOHN TIPTOFT, EARL OF (1427—1470)
• WORCESTER, WILLIAM (c. 1415-c. 1482)

Worcester, and was there wounded and taken prisoner . His See also:

• MSS

MSS. were destroyed after the See also:

• BATTLE

battle, with the exception of a few pages of the See also:

• PREFACE (Med. Lat. prefatia, for classical praefatio, praefari, to speak beforehand)

preface to his Universal See also:

• LANGUAGE (adapted from the Fr. langage, from langue, tongue, Lat. lingua)

Language . Urquhart was imprisoned in the See also:

• TOWER (Lat. turris; Fr. tour, clocker; Ital. torre; Ger. Thurm)

Tower and at See also:

• WINDSOR
• WINDSOR (properly NEw WINDSOR)

Windsor, but was released by See also:

• CROMWELL, HENRY (1628-1674)
• CROMWELL, OLIVER (1599-1658)
• CROMWELL, RICHARD (1626–1712)
• CROMWELL, THOMAS, EARL OF

Cromwell's orders in 1651 . He published in rapid See also:

• SUCCESSION (Lat. successio, from succedere, to follow after)

succession during 1652 and 1653 three tracts with See also:

• QUAINT (O. Fr. cointe, from Lat. cognitus, known, probably influenced by association with Lat. corn plus, neat)

quaint titles and quainter contents . Havroxpovoxavov is an amazing See also:

• GENEALOGY (from the Gr. yivos, family, and Vryos, theory)

genealogy of the See also:

• HOUSE
• HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in Gothic it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)

house of Urquhart up to See also:

• ADAM
• ADAM (or ADAN) DE LE HALE (died c. 1288)
• ADAM, ALEXANDER (1741–1809)
• ADAM, JULIETTE (1836– )
• ADAM, LAMBERT SIGISBERT (1700-1759)
• ADAM, MELCHIOR (d. 1622)
• ADAM, PAUL (1862– )
• ADAM, ROBERT (1728—1792)
• ADAM, SIR FREDERICK (1781-1853)
• ADAM, WILLIAM (1751-1839)

Adam, with the names extemporized for the earlier ages in a kind of gibberish . 'EKO-KV-eaXavpov is supposed to be a treatise on the virtues of a See also:

• JEWEL, JOHN (1522-1571)

jewel found in the streets of Worcester . The jewel is the recovered sheets of his See also:

• MANUSCRIPT

manuscript . The See also:

• DEFENCE
• DEFENCE (Lat. defendere, to defend)

defence of his See also:

• SYSTEM

system for a universal language was supplemented by a eulogy of the Scottish See also:

• CHARACTER (Gr. xapareri7p, from xap&crew, to scratch)

character, as shown in the Admirable See also:

• CRICHTON, JAMES (156o-? 1582)

Crichton and others . Finally, in Logopandecteision he again handled the subject of a universal language . The See also:

• TRANSLATION

Translation of Rabelais (Books I. and II.), which Urquhart produced in 1653, is of the highest value as literature, and, by See also:

• GENERAL
• GENERAL (Lat. generalis, of or relating to a genus, kind or class)

general testimony, one of the great masterpieces of translation . Though by no means a See also:

• CLOSE
• CLOSE (from Lat. clausum, shut)
• CLOSE, MAXWELL HENRY (1822-1903)

close rendering, it reproduces the spirit of the See also:

• ORIGINAL

original with remarkable felicity . The translation was reprinted in 1664; and in 1693 that of the Third See also:

• BOOK

Book was added .

Next to nothing is known of Urquhart after 1553; it is said that he sought See also:

• REFUGE

refuge, like other cavaliers, on the See also:

• CONTINENT (from Lat. continere, "to hold together "; hence " connected," " continuous ")

continent, and died (166o) of a See also:

• FIT

fit of laughing, brought on by joy at See also:

• HEARING (formed from the verb " to hear," O. Eng. hyran, heron, &c., a common Teutonic verb; cf. Ger. Koren, Dutch hooren, &c.; the O. Tent. form is seen in Goth. hausjan; the initial h makes any connexion with " ear," Lat. audire, or Gr. &Kobew very doub

hearing of the Restoration . His original See also:

• WORKS

Works, with such scanty particulars of his life as are known, and with reproductions of two original and curious frontispieces, which represent him as a handsome and dandified wearer of full See also:

• CAVALIER
• CAVALIER, JEAN (1681-1740)

cavalier See also:

• COSTUME
• COSTUME (through the Fr. costume, from Ital. costume, Late Lat. costuma, a contracted form of Lat. consuetudinem, ace. of consuetudo, custom, habit, manner, &c.)

costume, were published by the See also:

• MAITLAND (MAITLAND OF LETHINGTON), WILLIAM
• MAITLAND, EAST
• MAITLAND, EDWARD (1824-1897)
• MAITLAND, FREDERIC WILLIAM (1850-1906)
• MAITLAND, SIR RICHARD (LORD LETHINGTON) (1496-r586)

Maitland See also:

• CLUB (connected with " clump ")

Club (1834) . See also Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromartie, by See also:

• JOHN
• JOHN (1167–1216)
• JOHN (1290-c. 1320)
• JOHN (1296-1346)
• JOHN (1371–1419)
• JOHN (1468-1532)
• JOHN (1801-1873)
• JOHN (Heb. llni')
• JOHN (ZAPOLYA) (1487-1540)
• JOHN, 4TH MARQUESS OF TWEEDDALE (c. 1695-1762)
• JOHN, DON (1545-1578)
• JOHN, DON (1629–1679)
• JOHN, GOSPEL OF ST
• JOHN, or HAYS (1513–1571)
• JOHN, THE APOSTLE
• JOHN, THE EPISTLES OF

John Willcock (1899), and the articles in the New See also:

• REVIEW (Fr. revue, from revoir, to see again, Lat. re and videre)

Review (See also:

• JULY

July 1897) and Dict . Nat . Biog . The Rabelais has been frequently reprinted; See also:

• PETER
• PETER (Lat. Petrus from Gr. irfpos, a rock, Ital. Pietro, Piero, Pier, Fr. Pierre, Span. Pedro, Ger. Peter, Russ. Petr)
• PETER (PEDRO)
• PETER, EPISTLES OF
• PETER, ST

Peter Motteux's translation of the whole appeared in 1708, and Ozell's in 1737, each incorporating Urquhart's portions . See also:

• THEODORE
• THEODORE (602-690)
• THEODORE (Fedor) GRIGORIEVICH ORLOV, COUNT (1741–1796)
• THEODORE (Rus. Fedor, or Feodor)

Theodore See also:

• MARTIN (Martinus)
• MARTIN, BON LOUIS HENRI (1810-1883)
• MARTIN, CLAUD (1735-1800)
• MARTIN, FRANCOIS XAVIER (1762-1846)
• MARTIN, HOMER DODGE (1836-1897)
• MARTIN, JOHN (1789-1854)
• MARTIN, LUTHER (1748-1826)
• MARTIN, SIR THEODORE (1816-1909)
• MARTIN, SIR WILLIAM FANSHAWE (1801–1895)
• MARTIN, ST (c. 316-400)
• MARTIN, WILLIAM (1767-1810)

Martin in 1838, and See also:

• HENRY
• HENRY (1129-1195)
• HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
• HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
• HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
• HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
• HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
• HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
• HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
• HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
• HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
• HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
• HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
• HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)

Henry See also:

• MORLEY
• MORLEY [oP BLACKBURN], JOHN MORLEY
• MORLEY, BARONS AND EARLS OF
• MORLEY, GEORGE (1597-1684)
• MORLEY, HENRY (1822-1894)
• MORLEY, SAMUEL (18o9–1886)

Morley in 1883, published See also:

• EDITIONS

editions of Urquhart's See also:

• TEXT (Lat. textum, woven fabric, from texere, to weave)

text .