Authority Cited: Chaucer
Author name and dates: Geoffrey Chaucer (1343-1400)
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Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: about 19 Chaucer cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 1 word list, about 13 Chaucer cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 2. One Chaucer cite was identified as added in the 1773 Dict., indicated in bold italic below. The Sale Catalogue of Samuel Johnson's Library, a Facsimile Edition, Fleeman, ed., lists item 220 Chaucer's Works by Urry, 1721.]
Author name and dates: Geoffrey Chaucer (1343-1400)
BKG Bio-tweet: Army and diplomatic service; prose and poetry in French, Italian, and heroic styles; “first to write poetically” (Johnson)
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: about 19 Chaucer cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 1 word list, about 13 Chaucer cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 2. One Chaucer cite was identified as added in the 1773 Dict., indicated in bold italic below. The Sale Catalogue of Samuel Johnson's Library, a Facsimile Edition, Fleeman, ed., lists item 220 Chaucer's Works by Urry, 1721.]
- The works of Geoffrey Chaucer: compared with the former editions, and many valuable mss. Out of which, three tales are added which were never before printed, by John Urry, student of Christ-Church, Oxford, Deceased. 1721, London: Printed for Bernard Lintot, between the Temple Gates. [BKG Note: Watson in Johnson and English Poetry before 1660 (1936, rpt. 1965) demonstrates (pp. 92-93) that the Urry edition was quoted by SJ in the dictionary prefatory material, but does not address the citations of Chaucer in the word list. Yale Vol. 18, p. 184, states that a number of Chaucer citations in the Dict. word list are from either the Urry Chaucer or from Junius's Etyomologicum Anglicanum. See also the Yale Vol. 18 index for the Chaucer quotations in the Dict. "History of the English Language" and "Grammar of the English Tongue."]
- Chaucer (no work cited) Chaucer citations in the word list include: borough (in definition quote from Spencer); braid, adj. (etym.); con, v.a. (etym.); coy, adj.; daisy, n.s.; dam, n.s. (etym.); defend, v.a.; donjon (dongeon), n.s.; dredge, n.s. (etym.); drotchel, n.s. (etym.); erke, n.s.; fond, n.s. (etym.); glitterand, part.; gourd, n.s. (etym.from Hanmer); grin, n.s.; harlot, n.s. (etym.); huggermuggger, n.s. (etym.); jumble, v.a. (etym.); kerchief, n.s. (etym.); mucker, v.n. (etym.); pallet, n.s. (etym.); portass, n.s. (etym.); quaint, adj.; rote, n.s.; round, v.n. (etym.); scall; shall, v. defective (etym); sneap (snibbe), v.a.; spick and span, (etym.); tackle, n.s.; truantship, n.s. (etym.); welkin, n.s.; wrench. n.s. (etym.)