‖ bibliothèque
In 6 biblyotheke, 7 bibliotheicke, -theke, -thec, thek.
[a. F. bibliothèque, ad. L. bibliotheca; formerly quite naturalized in Eng. (with -θeːk, θɛk), but now again treated as French (biblijɔtɛk).]
A library; a collection of books or treatises.
| 1549 Bale Concl. Leland's Itin. (T.) He [Alcuinus] muche commendeth a biblyotheke or library in Yorke. 1601 Holland Pliny II. 523 Asinius Pollio, by dedicating his Bibliotheque, containing all the bookes that euer were written. a 1631 J. Done Aristeas 16 How many thousand volumes he had gotten together in his Bibliotheicke. 1657 S. Colvil Whigs Supplic. (1751) 67 Tho' with these two ye join in one The bibliothec of Prester John. 1755 Johnson in Boswell (1816) 265, I intend in the winter to open a Bibliotheque. |
| fig. 1685 Sir G. Mackenzie Relig. Stoic xi. 105 In the bibliotheck of his head. |