Authority Cited: Brown[e]
Author name and dates: Thomas Browne (1605-1682)
BKG Bio-tweet: Celebrated physician; antiquarian; Latinate, other language-derived words; errors propagated while debunking errors not few
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: per Hicthings in "Samuel Johnson and Sir Thomas Browne," Hitchings, Christian Nicholas Henry. University of London, University College London (United Kingdom), ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2002. 10015053, almost all of the Thomas Browne citations in the 1755 and 1773 Dict. are from: Pseudodoxia epidemica, or, Enquiries into very many received tenents and commonly presumed truths by Thomas Browne, Dr. of Physick, the Second Edition, Corrected and much enlarged by the author, together with some marginal observations, and a table alphabeticall at the end. . 1650 (1st ed. 1646), London: Printed by A. Miller, for Edw. Dod and Nath. Ekins at the Gunn in Ivie Lane. OR Pseudodoxia epidemica, or, Enquiries into very many received tenents and commonly presumed truths by Thomas Brown, Dr. of Physick, the Third Edition, Corrected and much enlarged by the author, together with some marginal observations, and a table alphabeticall at the end. 1658, London: Printed by R.W. for Nath. Ekins at the Gun in Pauls Church-Yard. Hitchings deduces that the 1650 2nd edition or later edition was used by SJ due to cited Dict. quotations that were added in 1650. Both the 1st and 2nd editions of Pseudodoxia epidemica spell Browne with an "e" on the title page, whereas the 3rd (1658) and later editions spell the name "Brown," which is the citation format in the Dict. The 3rd edition is the last to not have other Browne works added, and the last to state "Corrected and Enlarged by the Author" on the title page. Given SJ's frequent procedure of marking an entire volume (see Roscommon), and the almost total absence of quotes from other Browne titles in the Dict., I think the 1758 3rd edition of Pseudodoxia epidemica to be the most likely source of quotations. Per Hitchings, Thomas Browne is quoted about 1883 times in the 1755 Dict., and 80+ cites added in the 1773 Dict.]. [BKG Note: The following 57 T. Browne cites have been identified as added in vol. 1 of the 1773 Dict.: acceleration; accommodate; admittable; aggelation; aggregate; aggreeable; amplify; anatomy; animation; antidotal; acquatile; arboreous; articulate; austereness; clarity; colliquate; compactness; community; complexed; compute; concede; confine; connascence; constillate; constipate; continue v.a.; continue v.n.; crass; crocodile; cynegetics; defective; defraudation; denominable; discrete; distraction; discuss; divell; effluence; elongate; encyclopede; eustuance; evocation; exclude; exclusion; exolution; expand; featherly; firm; fish; flood; gain; gangrenate; hawked; knabble; slake; square; umpire. Reddick, in The Making of Johnson's Dictionary, 1990, lists (pp.122-123) the authorities with more than 10 cites added in volume 2 of the 1772 Dict., but does not list Thomas Browne, although Edward Browne is listed as having 23 cites added. Two Isaac Hawkins Browne cites and seven William Browne cites have also been identified as added in volume 2 of the 1773 Dict. The Sale Catalogue of Samuel Johnson's Library, A Facsimile Edition, Fleeman, ed., lists item 579 8. Browne's vulgar errors &c. Fleeman's Appendix I lists the 1646 first edition of Pseudodoxia epidemica inscribed by Johnson as known to have been in Johnson's library but there is no indication that it was marked for the Dict. This volume is located by Fleeman as in the NYC Public Library.]
Author name and dates: Thomas Browne (1605-1682)
BKG Bio-tweet: Celebrated physician; antiquarian; Latinate, other language-derived words; errors propagated while debunking errors not few
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: per Hicthings in "Samuel Johnson and Sir Thomas Browne," Hitchings, Christian Nicholas Henry. University of London, University College London (United Kingdom), ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2002. 10015053, almost all of the Thomas Browne citations in the 1755 and 1773 Dict. are from: Pseudodoxia epidemica, or, Enquiries into very many received tenents and commonly presumed truths by Thomas Browne, Dr. of Physick, the Second Edition, Corrected and much enlarged by the author, together with some marginal observations, and a table alphabeticall at the end. . 1650 (1st ed. 1646), London: Printed by A. Miller, for Edw. Dod and Nath. Ekins at the Gunn in Ivie Lane. OR Pseudodoxia epidemica, or, Enquiries into very many received tenents and commonly presumed truths by Thomas Brown, Dr. of Physick, the Third Edition, Corrected and much enlarged by the author, together with some marginal observations, and a table alphabeticall at the end. 1658, London: Printed by R.W. for Nath. Ekins at the Gun in Pauls Church-Yard. Hitchings deduces that the 1650 2nd edition or later edition was used by SJ due to cited Dict. quotations that were added in 1650. Both the 1st and 2nd editions of Pseudodoxia epidemica spell Browne with an "e" on the title page, whereas the 3rd (1658) and later editions spell the name "Brown," which is the citation format in the Dict. The 3rd edition is the last to not have other Browne works added, and the last to state "Corrected and Enlarged by the Author" on the title page. Given SJ's frequent procedure of marking an entire volume (see Roscommon), and the almost total absence of quotes from other Browne titles in the Dict., I think the 1758 3rd edition of Pseudodoxia epidemica to be the most likely source of quotations. Per Hitchings, Thomas Browne is quoted about 1883 times in the 1755 Dict., and 80+ cites added in the 1773 Dict.]. [BKG Note: The following 57 T. Browne cites have been identified as added in vol. 1 of the 1773 Dict.: acceleration; accommodate; admittable; aggelation; aggregate; aggreeable; amplify; anatomy; animation; antidotal; acquatile; arboreous; articulate; austereness; clarity; colliquate; compactness; community; complexed; compute; concede; confine; connascence; constillate; constipate; continue v.a.; continue v.n.; crass; crocodile; cynegetics; defective; defraudation; denominable; discrete; distraction; discuss; divell; effluence; elongate; encyclopede; eustuance; evocation; exclude; exclusion; exolution; expand; featherly; firm; fish; flood; gain; gangrenate; hawked; knabble; slake; square; umpire. Reddick, in The Making of Johnson's Dictionary, 1990, lists (pp.122-123) the authorities with more than 10 cites added in volume 2 of the 1772 Dict., but does not list Thomas Browne, although Edward Browne is listed as having 23 cites added. Two Isaac Hawkins Browne cites and seven William Browne cites have also been identified as added in volume 2 of the 1773 Dict. The Sale Catalogue of Samuel Johnson's Library, A Facsimile Edition, Fleeman, ed., lists item 579 8. Browne's vulgar errors &c. Fleeman's Appendix I lists the 1646 first edition of Pseudodoxia epidemica inscribed by Johnson as known to have been in Johnson's library but there is no indication that it was marked for the Dict. This volume is located by Fleeman as in the NYC Public Library.]
- Cosmologica Sacra (incorrect citation, should be Nehemiah Grew); beatify;
- Observations upon several plants mentioned in Scripture; arboreous
- Religio Medici; galliardise; violate;
- Vulgar Errors [Pseudodoxia epidemica]; abbreviate: [BKG Note: see the Hitchings reference above for a detailed listing of headwords.]
- Brown[e] no work cited; featherly (added in 1773 Dict. Per OED, a spurious word which SJ may have misquoted from Browne. Readings in the Browne editions are as follows: 1650 2nd edition, p.41, feathery; 1658 3rd edition, p.41: feathery; 1658 4th edition, p.58: feathery; 1669 5th edition, p.54: feathery; 1672 6th edition, p.55: feathery)