Changes in Czech Dictionary Definitions in Dictionaries by Daniel Adam of VeleslavínDaniel Adam of Veleslavín was an outstanding Czech humanist who compiled four multilingual dictionaries published between 1579 and 1598. He employed a broad range of different lexicographic means and techniques to render foreign language sections of his entries in Czech: one-word equivalents, synonyms, phrases, periphrases or their combinations. In his descriptions of word meanings, Veleslavín used both deictic and meronymic explanations as well as definitions with limited value, and – in later vocabularies – explanations which emphasise distinctive semantic features of the words. Zmiany w czeskich definicjach słownikowych w słownikach Daniela Adama z Velesl...