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Authorities

Authorities identified to date in word list in 1st (including Abstracted) and 4th editions = about 468.
Shakespeare is one entry
Authors known to Johnson (e.g., Pope) are collected in one entry
Books of the Bible are collected in one entry
Entry is for the name and spelling (with variants) as they appear in the dictionary (usually the form in the Abstracted edition)
1st edition total word list authorities = about 416. (Freed 1939 dissertation total = 346; most of Freed's focus on Vol.1)
Authorities added to word list in 4th ed. = about 51
Additional authorities (not also in word list) in prefatory material = 32.

Definitions (1755 Dict. statistics)

About 40,000 word list entries
About 25,000 additional senses are defined for a total of about 65,000 definitions supplied by SJ
About 28,000 of the 40,000 head words are not subdivided into multiple senses
About 12,000 words with two or more sense definitions
About 5,000 words with three or more sense definitions
About 3,000 words with four or more sense definitions
About 2,000 words with four or more sense definitions
Reducing to about 80 words with 19 or more sense definitions
The following 25 words have 30 or more sense definitions: as (30), bear (38), break (38), carry (32), cast (44), come (56), draw (52), for (42), from (42), give (35), go (68), good (35), hand (48), head (31), hold (31), keep (40), lay (58), make (59), put (66), run (53), set (66), take (113), turn (45), upon (30).

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