Authority Cited: Blount
Author name and dates: Thomas Blount (1618-1679)
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BKG Bio-tweet: Hindered from law practice by religion; lexicographer of hard-word and law dictionaries; literary warfare with plagiarizer
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: About 18 Blount cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 1, one Blount cite in Dict. vol.2. No additional Blount cites were identified as added in the 1773 Dict. Other Blount contributions to definitions may be without attribution or with a Dict. attribution. Edition and title of the Blount Dictionary used by SJ are unknown. Most of the headwords and quotes checked are in the Law-Dictionary title below. ]
Author name and dates: Thomas Blount (1618-1679)
PORTRAIT
BKG Bio-tweet: Hindered from law practice by religion; lexicographer of hard-word and law dictionaries; literary warfare with plagiarizer
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: About 18 Blount cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 1, one Blount cite in Dict. vol.2. No additional Blount cites were identified as added in the 1773 Dict. Other Blount contributions to definitions may be without attribution or with a Dict. attribution. Edition and title of the Blount Dictionary used by SJ are unknown. Most of the headwords and quotes checked are in the Law-Dictionary title below. ]
- A law-Dictionary and glossary, interpreting such difficult and obscure words and terms, as are found either in our common or statute, ancient or modern, laws. With References to the several Statutes, Records, Registers, Charters, Ancient Deeds, Manuscripts and Law-Books, wherein the Words and Terms are used. By Tho. Blount, of the Inner-Temple, Esq; The third edition. To which are added near three thousand words, Collected from all the Laws of the Saxon, Danish and Norman Kings: And from all the Ancient Books of the Common Law, from the Monasticon Anglicanum, Du Fresne's Glossary, Chronicon Saxonicum, and the Volumes lately published by Dr. Gale. Also an explanation of all the ancient names of the inhabitants, cities, towns, villages and rivers of Great Britain. Collected formerly by Mr. Camden and others, and necessary for Understanding the History and Laws of this Realm. By W. Nelson, of the Middle Temple, Esq. 1717, In the Savoy: printed by Eliz. Nutt, and R. Gosling, assignees of Edw. Sayer Esq; for D. Browne, J. Walthoe, J. Nicholson, B. Tooke, D. Midwinter, B. Cowse, M. Wellington, R. Gosling, W. Mears, J. Browne, J. Hooke, F. Clay, and E. Nutt; abactor; agist; amendment; amortise; annoisance; averment; banneret; barrister (utter-barrasters in text); barton; bergmote (berghmoth/bergmote in text); deforsor; delegate (not in 1773 Dict.); demand; derain (deraign in text); bencher (under utter-barrasters in text, same quote as barrister); derainment (deraignment in text); esquire; feme; wage;
- Glossographia anglicana nova: or, A Dictionary, interpreting such hard words of whatever language, as are at present used in the English tongue, with their etymologies, definition, &c. Also the terms of divinity, law, physick, mathematicks, history, agriculture, logick, metaphysicks, grammar, poetry, musick, heraldry, architecture, painting, war, and all other arts and sciences are herein explain'd ... 1707, London, Printed for D. Brown; annex (not in 1773 Dict.);
- See also Escape of King Charles
- Blount (no work cited);