Authority Cited: Baker
Author name and dates: Thomas Baker (1656-1740)
BKG Bio-tweet: Cambridge fellow; antiquarian scholar; declined William oaths; anon. pub. of works; died of apoplexy; gave lib. to Cambridge
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: about 28 Baker cites in 1755 Dict. vol.1, about 85 Baker cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 2. One Baker cite identified as added in the 1773 Dict. is indicated in bold italic below. The edition of the title below used by SJ is unknown.]
Author name and dates: Thomas Baker (1656-1740)
BKG Bio-tweet: Cambridge fellow; antiquarian scholar; declined William oaths; anon. pub. of works; died of apoplexy; gave lib. to Cambridge
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: about 28 Baker cites in 1755 Dict. vol.1, about 85 Baker cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 2. One Baker cite identified as added in the 1773 Dict. is indicated in bold italic below. The edition of the title below used by SJ is unknown.]
- Reflections on Learning; Reflections upon learning; wherein is shewn the insufficiency thereof, in its several particulars: in order to evince the usefulness and necessity of revelation. The sixth edition. By a gentleman, 1727, London: printed for James and John Knapton, at the Crown, and Richard Wilkin, at the Kings-Head, in St. Paul's Church-Yard; conciliar; depreciate; deprecate; doubtfulness; element; empower; . . . prodigal (p.224, cited as Baker in1755 Dict., incorrectly changed to Bacon in 1773 Dict. This error continues through the 1827 Todd Dict. edition. Not an example used in the OED.)
- Baker (no work cited); antinomy; dispensatory; doubt; . . . voice; want; whereas; yet.