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Which D&D Words and Things are Post 1608?
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<blockquote data-quote="MNblockhead" data-source="post: 8847290" data-attributes="member: 6796661"><p>Not sure that I would go with "modern use" of species. It seems you are selecting the earliest use in the sense of zoology or biology. But in a fantasy game, even older uses of the term are arguably more appropriate. That could move the date back another half-century. </p><p></p><p></p><p> <strong>I.</strong> Senses relating to outward appearance or form.</p><p>†<strong>1.</strong></p><p> <strong>a.</strong> Appearance; outward form. <em>Obsolete</em>.This sense is partly represented in the legal use of the word: see quots. <a href="https://www.oed.com/view/Entry/185995?rskey=w2fpKg&result=2&isAdvanced=false#eid21652462" target="_blank">1651</a>, <a href="https://www.oed.com/view/Entry/186007#eid21657730" target="_blank">1765-8 at specification n. 1b</a>.</p><p>1559 P. Morwyng tr. C. Gesner <em>Treasure of Euonymus</em> 400 An other very good wine with the same species, but in other weight.</p><p>1651 T. Hobbes <em>Leviathan</em> iv. xliv. 338 A Divinity under their <em>species</em>, or likenesse.</p><p></p><p> <strong>II.</strong> Senses relating to groups or classes.</p><p> <strong>7.</strong> </p><p> </p><p> <strong>a.</strong> <em>Logic</em>. The second of the five Predicables (<a href="https://www.oed.com/view/Entry/149839#eid28850398" target="_blank">predicable n. 1a</a>), connoting the common attributes or essential qualities of a class of persons or things as distinguished from the genus on the one hand and the individual on the other.</p><p>1551 T. Wilson <em>Rule of Reason</em> sig. Bvj Species is a common word that is spoken of many whiche differ only in number, as manne is spoken of Socrates,..and of euery proper name belonging to any man. As Socrates is a man.</p><p>1567 J. Jewel <em>Def. Apol. Churche Eng.</em> iii. v. 343 What adoo was made in daily disputations..aboute Genus and Species, and the reste of the Vniuersals.</p><p></p><p><strong>8.</strong> </p><p> </p><p> <strong>a.</strong> A class composed of individuals having some common qualities or characteristics, frequently as a subdivision of a larger class or genus.</p><p>1629 W. Prynne <em>Church of Englands Old Antithesis</em> 98 This kind of argument from euery indiuiduall to the speecies will not hold.</p><p>1653 tr. J. Stegmann <em>Brevis Disq.</em> in <em>Phenix</em> (1708) II. 324 Are you not yet sure whether..if you reject all the Species, the whole Genus be taken away?</p><p>1690 J. Locke <em>Ess. Humane Understanding</em> iii. vi. 211 The Individuals that are ranked into one Sort, called by one common Name, and so received as being of one Species.</p><p></p><p> <strong>9.</strong> </p><p> </p><p> <strong>a.</strong> A distinct class, sort, or kind, of something specifically mentioned or indicated. Frequently const. <em>of</em>.The separate groups of quotations illustrate the chief varieties of context.</p><p>(a)</p><p>1561 T. Hoby tr. B. Castiglione <em>Courtyer</em> iii. sig. Cc.iii Both the one and the other is conteined vnder the Species of <em>Homo</em>.</p><p>1660 R. Coke <em>Justice Vindicated</em> ii. 26 If the Scriptures be true,..that since Adam..the species of Mankind was continued by generation.</p><p></p><p> <strong>c.</strong> Applied to individuals as unique or as typical of a class.</p><p>1644 J. Cleveland <em>Char. London Diurnall</em> 7 As the Angels, each of them makes a severall <em>Species</em>; so every one of his Souldiers is a distinct Church.</p><p>1656 A. Cowley <em>Praise of Pindar</em> in <em>Pindaric Odes</em> i Pindar is imitable by none; The Phœnix Pindar is a vast Species alone.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MNblockhead, post: 8847290, member: 6796661"] Not sure that I would go with "modern use" of species. It seems you are selecting the earliest use in the sense of zoology or biology. But in a fantasy game, even older uses of the term are arguably more appropriate. That could move the date back another half-century. [B]I.[/B] Senses relating to outward appearance or form. †[B]1.[/B] [B]a.[/B] Appearance; outward form. [I]Obsolete[/I].This sense is partly represented in the legal use of the word: see quots. [URL='https://www.oed.com/view/Entry/185995?rskey=w2fpKg&result=2&isAdvanced=false#eid21652462']1651[/URL], [URL='https://www.oed.com/view/Entry/186007#eid21657730']1765-8 at specification n. 1b[/URL]. 1559 P. Morwyng tr. C. Gesner [I]Treasure of Euonymus[/I] 400 An other very good wine with the same species, but in other weight. 1651 T. Hobbes [I]Leviathan[/I] iv. xliv. 338 A Divinity under their [I]species[/I], or likenesse. [B]II.[/B] Senses relating to groups or classes. [B]7.[/B] [B]a.[/B] [I]Logic[/I]. The second of the five Predicables ([URL='https://www.oed.com/view/Entry/149839#eid28850398']predicable n. 1a[/URL]), connoting the common attributes or essential qualities of a class of persons or things as distinguished from the genus on the one hand and the individual on the other. 1551 T. Wilson [I]Rule of Reason[/I] sig. Bvj Species is a common word that is spoken of many whiche differ only in number, as manne is spoken of Socrates,..and of euery proper name belonging to any man. As Socrates is a man. 1567 J. Jewel [I]Def. Apol. Churche Eng.[/I] iii. v. 343 What adoo was made in daily disputations..aboute Genus and Species, and the reste of the Vniuersals. [B]8.[/B] [B]a.[/B] A class composed of individuals having some common qualities or characteristics, frequently as a subdivision of a larger class or genus. 1629 W. Prynne [I]Church of Englands Old Antithesis[/I] 98 This kind of argument from euery indiuiduall to the speecies will not hold. 1653 tr. J. Stegmann [I]Brevis Disq.[/I] in [I]Phenix[/I] (1708) II. 324 Are you not yet sure whether..if you reject all the Species, the whole Genus be taken away? 1690 J. Locke [I]Ess. Humane Understanding[/I] iii. vi. 211 The Individuals that are ranked into one Sort, called by one common Name, and so received as being of one Species. [B]9.[/B] [B]a.[/B] A distinct class, sort, or kind, of something specifically mentioned or indicated. Frequently const. [I]of[/I].The separate groups of quotations illustrate the chief varieties of context. (a) 1561 T. Hoby tr. B. Castiglione [I]Courtyer[/I] iii. sig. Cc.iii Both the one and the other is conteined vnder the Species of [I]Homo[/I]. 1660 R. Coke [I]Justice Vindicated[/I] ii. 26 If the Scriptures be true,..that since Adam..the species of Mankind was continued by generation. [B]c.[/B] Applied to individuals as unique or as typical of a class. 1644 J. Cleveland [I]Char. London Diurnall[/I] 7 As the Angels, each of them makes a severall [I]Species[/I]; so every one of his Souldiers is a distinct Church. 1656 A. Cowley [I]Praise of Pindar[/I] in [I]Pindaric Odes[/I] i Pindar is imitable by none; The Phœnix Pindar is a vast Species alone. [/QUOTE]
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