Authority Cited: Ainsworth
Author name and dates: Robert Ainsworth (1660-1743)
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BKG Bio-tweet: Schoolmaster; scholar; SJ used Latin-English dictionary source of headwords, definitions, etymologies, notes disagreements
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: Yale Works: edition used uncertain; For a detailed and definitive discussion of SJ's citations of Ainsworth, Bailey, Philips, and Dict., see In the Tracks of a Lexicographer, Secondary Documentation in Samuel Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language (1755), Catharina M. de Vries, 1994, Leiden. de Vries is inclined to SJ's use of the 1746, 1751, or 1752 edition of Ainsworth's Thesaurus. Per de Vries's hand count, there are 161 Ainsworth cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 1, and 423 cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 2. A number of instances of unacknowledged use of Ainsworth material is also noted by de Vries. About 12 new Ainsworth citations were identified by de Vries as added to the 1773 Dict.]
Author name and dates: Robert Ainsworth (1660-1743)
PORTRAIT
BKG Bio-tweet: Schoolmaster; scholar; SJ used Latin-English dictionary source of headwords, definitions, etymologies, notes disagreements
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: Yale Works: edition used uncertain; For a detailed and definitive discussion of SJ's citations of Ainsworth, Bailey, Philips, and Dict., see In the Tracks of a Lexicographer, Secondary Documentation in Samuel Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language (1755), Catharina M. de Vries, 1994, Leiden. de Vries is inclined to SJ's use of the 1746, 1751, or 1752 edition of Ainsworth's Thesaurus. Per de Vries's hand count, there are 161 Ainsworth cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 1, and 423 cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 2. A number of instances of unacknowledged use of Ainsworth material is also noted by de Vries. About 12 new Ainsworth citations were identified by de Vries as added to the 1773 Dict.]
- Thesaurus Linguae Latinae Compendiarius; or, A Compendious Dictionary of the Latin Tongue; Designed for the Use of the British Nations, London, prtd. for J. J. and P. Knapton, et al. (1736) OR Thesaurus linguæ latinæ compendiarius: or, a compendious dictionary of the Latin tongue: designed for the use of the British nations: In three parts. By Robert Ainsworth. The [second or] third edition, with additions and improvements. By Samuel Patrick, [1746 or] 1751, London : printed by C. and J. Ackers, for W. Mount and T. Page, W. Innys, R. Ware, J. and P. Knapton [and 15 others]; button; copperworm; cryal; cryer; cunner; custral; . . . gosting, per the OED, is a spurious word resulting from an Ainsworth text mistake for gosling. The (original) OED is mistaken that SJ provides a definition other than "An herb." gosting appears in the Ainsworth 1736 1st ed., the 1746 2nd ed.; the 1751 3rd Ed. and the 1761 "4th" ed. (the first volume of the 1752 4th ed. was not available, so not checked).
- Ainsworth (no work cited);