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  • A - AUTHOR NAMES
    • A Proverb
    • AProverb (template)
    • Abbot >
      • Brief Description of the Whole World
      • Abbot (no work cited)
    • Accidence
    • Addison [Joseph]
    • Addison, Dr. [Lancelot]
    • AEn. [Aeneid; Pitt, Christopher]
    • Ainsworth [Robert]
    • [Allestree, Richard]
    • Alleyne [Aleyn, Charles]
    • Amhurst [Nicholas]
    • Anon.
    • Apostles Creed
    • Arbuthnot, C. [Charles]
    • Arbuthnot [John]
    • Arbuthnot and Pope
    • Aristotle
    • Ascham [Roger]
    • Atterbury [Francis]
    • Ayliffe [John]
  • B - AUTHOR NAMES
    • Bacon [Francis]
    • Bailey [Nathan]
    • Baker [Thomas]
    • Barker; Mrs. Barker
    • Bathurst [Ralph]
    • Baxter [William]
    • Baynard [Edward]
    • Beattie [James]
    • Beaumont [Francis]; B. and Fletcher
    • Beaumont [Joseph]
    • Bentley [Richard]
    • Berkley [George Berkeley]
    • Betterton [Thomas]
    • Bible
    • Blackmore [Richard]
    • Blount [Edward] to Pope
    • Blount [Thomas]
    • Bluteau [Raphael]
    • Bochart, Samuel
    • Boerhaave [Herman]
    • Boileau [-Despreaux, Nicholas]
    • Bolingbroke [Henry St. John]
    • Bourd [Boorde, Andrew]
    • Bourne [Vincent]
    • Boyle [Robert]
    • Boyse, Sa. [Samuel]
    • Bracton [Henry de]
    • Bramhall [John]
    • Brampston [James Bramston]
    • Brerewood [Edward]
    • Brooke [Henry]
    • Brooks
    • Broome [William]
    • Brown[e] [Edward]
    • Brown[e] [Thomas]
    • Brown[e] [William]
    • Bruno [de Segni]
    • Buckingham [John Sheffield]
    • Buckhurst [see Dorset]
    • Budaeus [Guillaume Budé]
    • Builder’s Dict.
    • Bull [George]
    • Burnet [Thomas]
    • Burton [Robert]
    • [Butler, Samuel] Hudibras
  • C - AUTHOR NAMES
    • Caius [John Kays]
    • Calamy [Edmund]
    • [Callimachus]
    • Calmet [Antoine Augustin]
    • Calvin [Johannes Wetteranus Calvinus]
    • Camden [William]
    • Carew [Richard]; Car.
    • Carew [Thomas]
    • Carte [Thomas] Life of Ormonde
    • Carter, Mrs. [Elizabeth]
    • Casaubin [Meric Casaubon]
    • Casseneuve [Cazeneuve, Pierre de]
    • Cave, Edward
    • Chambers [Ephraim]
    • Chapman [George]
    • Chaucer [Geoffrey]
    • Cheselden [William]
    • Chesterfield, Earl of [Philip Dormer Stanhope]
    • Chevy Chase
    • Cheyne [George]
    • Child [Josiah]
    • Children in the Wood
    • Chillingworth [William]
    • Church Catechism
    • Cicero [Marcus Tullius]
    • Clarendon [Edward Hyde]
    • Clarke [John]
    • Clarke [Samuel]
    • Cleaveland [John]; Cleavel
    • Cockburn [John]
    • Cock[er]; Cocker [Edward]
    • Coke [Edward]
    • [Collier, Jane] Art of Tormenting
    • Collier [Jeremy]; Collyer
    • Collins [William]
    • Colson [John]
    • Common Prayer
    • Concanen [Matthew]
    • Congreve [William]
    • Corbet, J.
    • Corbet; Corbet , Bp. [Corbett, Richard]
    • Cotton [Charles]
    • Cowel [John]
    • Cowley [Abraham]
    • Crashaw [Richard]
    • Creech [Thomas]
    • Cromwell [Henry]
    • Cromwel[l] [Thomas] to King Henry
    • Croxal [Samuel]
    • Cudworth [Ralph]
    • Cujas [Jacques]
  • D - AUTHOR NAMES
    • Daniel; Daniel’s Civil War [Samuel]
    • Daniel (Dr. Daniel in 4th) [Richard]
    • Davenant [Charles]
    • D'avenant [William]
    • Davies [John (Sir)]
    • Davies [John]
    • Decay of Piety; Decay [Allestree, Richard]?
    • [Defoe, Daniel] Robinson Crusoe
    • Delany [Patrick]
    • Denham [John]
    • Dennis [John]
    • Derham [William]
    • Destruction of Troy [Caxton, tr.]
    • D'Herbelot [Barthelemy]
    • Dict. [e.g. Bailey, Ainsworth, Phillips]
    • Dier [Samuel Dyer]
    • Digby [Kenelm]
    • Digby [Robert]; Digby to Pope
    • Digby [George] (Lord Digby to Sir Kenelm Digby)
    • Dodderidge [Philip Doddridge]
    • Dodsley’s Miscellany; Dodsley; Dodsley’s Agriculture [Robert Dodsley]
    • Donne [John]; Don.
    • Dorset [Charles Sackville]; Buckhurst
    • Douglas [Gavin]
    • Drayton [Michael]
    • Drummond [William]
    • Dryden [John]; Poem to Roscommon; Oedipus
    • Dryden, J. jun [John]
    • Du Cange [Charles Du Fresne Du Cange]
    • Duke [Richard]
    • Duncomb’s Life of Hughes [William Duncomb]
    • Duppa [Brian]
    • Dyer [John], Dier
  • E - AUTHOR NAMES
    • Eachard [John]
    • Eachard [Laurence Echard]
    • Ellis’s Voyage [Henry]
    • Epitaph on Vanbrugh [Evans, Abel]
    • Escape of King Charles
    • Evelyn [John]
    • Expedition to Carthagena [Charles Knowles]
  • F - AUTHOR NAMES
    • Fairfax [Edward]
    • Fanshaw [Richard]
    • Farquhar [George]
    • Farrier’s Dict.
    • Felibien [Andre]
    • Fell [John]
    • Felton [Henry]
    • Fenton [Elijah]
    • Ferne [Henry] Bishop
    • Fiddes [Richard]
    • Fielding [Henry]
    • Fisher [John]
    • Fitzgerald [Thomas]
    • Flatman [Thomas]
    • Fleetwood [William]
    • Fletcher [John}
    • Fletch, P. [Phineas Fletcher]
    • Floyer [John]
    • Forbes [Duncan]
    • Fortunatus; Vent. Fort. [Venantius Fortunatus]
    • Fox [John Foxe]
    • Francis [I] of France
    • Freeholder - see Addison
    • Freind [John]; (Friend in Abstr.)
    • Fryer, John
  • G - AUTHOR NAMES
    • Garlick [Thomas
    • Garretson [John]
    • Garrick’s Epilogue [David]
    • Garth [Samuel]
    • Gay [John]
    • Geddes [Michael]
    • Gerard [John]
    • Gibson [Edmond]; Gibson’s Camden
    • Giffard [Gifford, Richard]
    • Glanville [Glanvill, Joseph]
    • Glover, Richard
    • Goldsmith, Oliver
    • Goodman [John]
    • Gouldman [Francis]
    • Government of the Tongue
    • Gower, [John]
    • Grainger [James]
    • Granville [George]
    • Graunt [John]
    • Gray [Stephen]
    • Gray [Thomas]
    • [Greek] Anthology
    • Grew [Nehemiah]
    • Grosthead, Bishop [Robert Grosseteste or Grossetete]
    • Guardian [Richard Steele, Addison]
  • H - AUTHOR NAMES
    • Hacket [John]
    • Hakewell [Hakewill, George]; Hakewill
    • Hale [Matthew]
    • Hale, Dr. [Stephen Hales]
    • Halifax [Charles Montague]
    • Hall [Joseph]
    • Hammond [Henry]; Ham.
    • Hanmer [Thomas]
    • Harrington [John]
    • Harris [John]
    • Harte [Walter]
    • Harvey [Gideon]
    • Hawkesworth [John]
    • Hayward [John]
    • Hearne [Thomas]
    • Heigh [R.]
    • Henshaw [Thomas]
    • Herbert [George]
    • Herring [Thomas]
    • Hesychius [of Alexandria]
    • Heylin [Heylyn, Peter]
    • Hickes [George]
    • Hill, Aaron
    • Hill [John]
    • Holder [William]
    • Holinsh. [Raphael Holinshed]
    • Holyday [Barten]
    • Homer
    • Hooke’s Roman History [Nathaniel]
    • Hooker [Richard]; Hook.
    • Horace
    • Hough [John]
    • Hoveden (Howden) [Roger of Hoveden]
    • Howel [Howell, James]; How.
    • Hughes’s Spenc.; Hughes [John]
  • I - AUTHOR NAMES
    • Introduction to Grammar [Garretson, John]
  • J - AUTHOR NAMES
    • James’s Voyage [Thomas]
    • Jervas [Charles]
    • Jewel [John]
    • [Johnson, Samuel] Irene, Savage’s Life, London; Rambler, Vanity of Human Wishes; Johnson (Vanity); Comment.[ary] on Pope’s Essay on Man
    • [Jonson, Benjamin] Johnson, Ben
    • Junius [Francis]
  • K - AUTHOR NAMES
    • [Kane] Cane
    • Keil [Keill, John]
    • Ken [Thomas]
    • Kennet [White Kennett]
    • Kettlewell [John]; Kettleworth
    • King [William]; King’s Cookery
    • King Charles [Charles I]
    • King James [I]
    • King James [James II; James VII of Scotland]; K. James's Declaration
    • Knolles [Richard]
  • L - AUTHOR NAMES
    • L’Acad. [Dictionnnaire l’Academie francaise]
    • Latimer [Hugh]
    • Lauderdale [John Maitland]
    • Law [William]
    • Lawrence, Dr. [Thomas]
    • Layer's Trial
    • Lee [Nathaniel]
    • [Lennox, Charlotte] Female Quixote; Shakespeare Illustrated
    • Lesley [Leslie, Charles]
    • L’Estrange [Roger]
    • Lewis [David] ; Lewis’s Miscel.
    • Lib. Londiniensis
    • Lily [William]
    • Littleton [Thomas] (also Lyttleton, de Littleton)
    • Littlet. ; Littleton, Dr. [Edward]
    • Lloyd [William]
    • Locke [John]
    • Logie
    • London Dispensatory
    • Lye [Edward]
    • [Lyttelton, George] Littleton on the Conversion of St. Paul
  • M - AUTHOR NAMES
    • Macbean [Alexander]; Macbean’s Remonstrance
    • Mackenzie [George]
    • Madden [Samuel]
    • Maine; Maine, Dr. Jasper [Mayne]
    • Malcolm [Alexander]
    • Mandeslo [Mandelslo, John Albrecht]
    • Mandeville; Maundeville [John]
    • Manger's French Grammar
    • Manwood [John]
    • Mareschal [Thomas Marshall]
    • Markham [Gervase]
    • Martial
    • Martin [Benjamin]
    • Mart. Scribl. [Martinus Scriblerus]
    • Marvel[l] [Andrew]
    • May [Thomas]
    • Mead [Richard]
    • Melmouth [William Melmoth]
    • Menage [Giles]
    • Middleton [Thomas, and Decker, Thomas]
    • Military Dict.
    • Miller [Philip]
    • Milton [John]; Par. Regained; Par. Lost
    • [Minsheu] Minshew [John]
    • Molineux [William Molyneaux]
    • Moore [Edward]; Moore’s Fables; Moore’s Foundling
    • More’s Life of Sir Thomas More [Christopher Cresacre]
    • More [Henry]
    • More [Thomas]
    • Moreton [Anne]
    • Mortimer [John]
    • Motteux [Peter Anthony]
    • Moxon [Joseph]
    • Mulso, Mrs. [Hester Chapone]
    • Murphy [Arthur]
    • Muschenbrock [Musschenbroek, Pieter van]
  • N - AUTHOR NAMES
    • Nelson [Robert]
    • Newcastle [Margaret], Dutchess [Duchess] of
    • Newton [Isaac[
    • Newton [Thomas]
    • Nicene Creed
    • Nigel de Wetekre
    • Nichols
    • Norris [John]
  • O - AUTHOR NAMES
    • Ogle [George]
    • Old Comedy
    • Old Song
    • Oldham [John]
    • Oldham’s Life [Robert Shiels/Theophilis Cibber]
    • Orrery [Charles Boyle, 4th Earl]
    • Orrery [John Boyle, 5th earl]
    • Orrery [Roger Boyle, 1st Earl]
    • Otway [Thomas]
    • Oxford Reasons Against the Covenant
    • Ozenam [Ozanam, Jacques]
  • P - AUTHOR NAMES
    • Parnel [Parnell, Thomas]
    • Pasquier [Etienne]
    • Pattison [William]
    • Peacham [Henry]
    • Pearce [Zachary]
    • Pearson [John]
    • Pemberton [Henry]
    • Perkins [William]
    • Pezron [Paul-Yves]
    • Philips [Ambrose] ; Phillips, A.
    • Phillips; [Philips, John]
    • Phillips, Edward
    • Phil. Trans.
    • Pierce [Thomas]; Pierce’s Lett.
    • Pineda [Pedro]
    • Pope [and various works][Alexander]; Pype >
      • Imitations of Horace
    • Pope, Dr. [Walter]
    • Prideaux [Humphrey]
    • Prior [Matthew]
  • Q - AUTHOR NAMES
    • Quarles [Francis]
    • Quincy [John]
  • R - AUTHOR NAMES
    • S - AUTHOR NAMES >
      • Salernum, School of
      • Salmasius [Claudius]; Saumaise [Claude]
      • Salmon’s Survey; Salmon [Nathanael]
      • [Sanderson, Robert] Saunderson; Sanderson
      • Sandys [George]; San.
      • Sappho
      • Savage [Richard]
      • Savary [Jacques Savary du Bruslon and Louis-Philemon Savary]
      • Scaliger [Joseph Justinian]
      • Scotch Proverb
      • Sea Dict. [Capt. John Smith]
      • [Sedley, Charles] Sidley
      • Seed’s Sermons [Jeremiah]
      • Selden [John]
      • Sewel [George Sewell]
      • Shadwell [Thomas]
      • Shakespeare [William]
      • Sharpe [Samuel]; Sharp.
      • Shaw [Peter]
      • Shaw; Shaw’s Gramm. [Samuel]
      • Shelvock [Shelvocke, George]
      • Sherburne [Edward]
      • Sherlock [Thomas]
      • Sidney [Philip]
      • Skelton [Philip]
      • Skinner [Stephen]
      • Smalridge [George]; Smallridge
      • Smart [Christopher]
      • Smith [Edmund]
      • Smith [John]
      • Somerville [William]
      • Somner [William]
      • Song
      • Song of the King and the Miller
      • South [Robert]
      • Southern[e]; Southerne [Thomas]
      • Sparrow, Dr. [Anthony]
      • Spectator [Addison and Steele]
      • Spelman [Henry]
      • Spenser [Edmund]; Hubberd’s Tale; Fairy Queen
      • Spratt [Sprat, Thomas]
      • Steele [Richard] to Pope
      • W - AUTHOR NAMES >
        • W____n [Waldren]
        • Wafer [Lionel]
        • Wake [William]
        • Walker [William]
        • Waller [Edmund]
        • Waller’s Life
        • Wallis [John]
        • Walsh [William]
        • Walton [Izaak]
        • Wandering Pr.[Prince] of Troy
        • Warburton [William]
        • Ward [Seth]
        • Warton’s Spencer [Thomas Warton; Wharton’s [Warton’s] Isis; Progress of Discontent
        • Wase [Christopher]
        • Waterland [Daniel]
        • Watts [Isaac]; Wat.
        • Welsted [Leonard]
        • Wesley [Samuel]
        • West [Gilbert]
        • Westmonasteriensis, Matt. [Matthew Paris]
        • White [Francis]
        • Whitgift [John]; Whitgifte
        • Whole Duty of Man; Duty of Man [Allestree?]
        • Widow and Cat
        • Wilkins [John]
        • William of Wykeham
        • Wise [Francis]
        • Wiseman [Richard]
        • Wollaston [William]
        • Wood [Anthony]
        • Woodward [John]; Woodw.
        • Wotton [Henry]
        • Wycherley [William]
        • X - AUTHOR NAMES
      • Steevens [George]
      • Stephens [William]; Stephen’s Sermons
      • Stepney [George]
      • Sternhold [Thomas]
      • Steuart
      • Stillingfleet [Edward]
      • Stone [Edmund]
      • [Strype] Memoir in Strype [John]
      • Suckling [John]
      • Swift [Jonathan]; Gulliver
      • Sylvester [Joshua]
    • Raleigh [Walter]
    • Ralph [James]
    • Ray [John]
    • Reynolds [Joshua]
    • Richards [Nathanael]; N. Richards
    • [Richardson, Samuel] Clarissa; Pamela; Richardson’s Pamela
    • Robert of Gloucester
    • [Rochester, Wilmot, 2nd Earl of]
    • Rogers [John]
    • Roscommon [Wentworth Dillon]
    • Rowe [Nicholas]
    • Rowe’s Life [?James Welwood]
    • Rowland[s] [Henry]
    • [Rudyerd, Benjamin] Rudgerd
    • Rymer [Thomas]
  • Randolph [Thomas]; T. Randolph; Tho. Randolph
  • T - AUTHOR NAMES
    • Taliessyn [Taliesen]
    • Taylor [John] the Water-poet
    • Tate [Nahum]
    • Tatler
    • Temple [William] >
      • Taylor [Jeremy]
    • Theobald [Lewis]
    • Thomson [James]
    • Topsell [Edward] Book of Animals
    • Tickel [Thomas]; Tickle
    • Trapp [Joseph]
    • Trevoux [Dictionnaire de Trevoux]
    • Tillotson [John]
    • [Trumbull, William] Trumball;Trumbull
    • Turberville [George]
    • Turnebus [Adrien Turnebe]
    • Tusser [Thomas]
  • Unattributed phrase or definition
  • Unknown correspondent (a)
  • U - AUTHOR NAMES
    • Unknown correspondent (b)
  • V - AUTHOR NAMES
    • Vanbrugh [John]
    • Virgil
    • Verses on Cleaveland
    • Verstegan (Rowlands, Richard)
  • Y - AUTHOR NAMES
    • Young [Edward]
    • Yalden [Thomas]
  • Z - AUTHOR NAMES
  • Brown[e] [Isaac Hawkins]
  • Henley [John]
  • [Trevisa] John de Trevisa
  • Knighton [Henry]
  • New Page
  • Baxter [Richard]
  • Authorities added in the 1773 Dictionary
  • Gentleman Instructed
  • John Brown
  • Upton, [John]
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Temporal Summary of Samuel Johnson Dictionary Word List
BKG Note: The numbers of citations listed in the table below are partly derived from electronic searches for author names.  My estimate of 113,600 authority citations in the 1755 Dict. word list and 2,800 citations added in the 1773 Dict. is in the same range as Stenberg, Theodore 1944, "Quotations of Pope in Johnson's Dictionary," Studies in English 197-210: 113,660 (1st); 116,620 (4th) based on an average number of quotations per page in an extended sample.  My count includes etymology citations as well as quotations.  I am reasonably confident in the proportion of citations in the various time periods below (by author death dates).  To before 1568: 0.06 %; 1568 to before 1616: 11.4 %; 1616 to before 1626: 16.8 %; 1626 to before 1649: 8.4 %; 1649 to before 1674: 4.3%; 1674 to before 1700: 15%; 1700 to before 1719: 19.3%; 1719 to before 1745: 18.8%; after 1745: 6%.  So, quotations from "the wells of English undefiled" (before 1660) amount to less than half the total.  

With respect to quotations from living authors, 67 authorities were cited in the word list who were living at the time of publication of the Dict. 1st edition in 1755 (about 14% of the total word list authorities cited).  For the 1773 4th Dict. edition, 11 added authorities were cited who were living at the time of publication (about 18% of the additional authorities cited in the 4th edition).  A list of cited authors by death date and the estimated number of citations for each can be found on the Context - History Relevant to Authors page.
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  • A - AUTHOR NAMES
    • A Proverb
    • AProverb (template)
    • Abbot >
      • Brief Description of the Whole World
      • Abbot (no work cited)
    • Accidence
    • Addison [Joseph]
    • Addison, Dr. [Lancelot]
    • AEn. [Aeneid; Pitt, Christopher]
    • Ainsworth [Robert]
    • [Allestree, Richard]
    • Alleyne [Aleyn, Charles]
    • Amhurst [Nicholas]
    • Anon.
    • Apostles Creed
    • Arbuthnot, C. [Charles]
    • Arbuthnot [John]
    • Arbuthnot and Pope
    • Aristotle
    • Ascham [Roger]
    • Atterbury [Francis]
    • Ayliffe [John]
  • B - AUTHOR NAMES
    • Bacon [Francis]
    • Bailey [Nathan]
    • Baker [Thomas]
    • Barker; Mrs. Barker
    • Bathurst [Ralph]
    • Baxter [William]
    • Baynard [Edward]
    • Beattie [James]
    • Beaumont [Francis]; B. and Fletcher
    • Beaumont [Joseph]
    • Bentley [Richard]
    • Berkley [George Berkeley]
    • Betterton [Thomas]
    • Bible
    • Blackmore [Richard]
    • Blount [Edward] to Pope
    • Blount [Thomas]
    • Bluteau [Raphael]
    • Bochart, Samuel
    • Boerhaave [Herman]
    • Boileau [-Despreaux, Nicholas]
    • Bolingbroke [Henry St. John]
    • Bourd [Boorde, Andrew]
    • Bourne [Vincent]
    • Boyle [Robert]
    • Boyse, Sa. [Samuel]
    • Bracton [Henry de]
    • Bramhall [John]
    • Brampston [James Bramston]
    • Brerewood [Edward]
    • Brooke [Henry]
    • Brooks
    • Broome [William]
    • Brown[e] [Edward]
    • Brown[e] [Thomas]
    • Brown[e] [William]
    • Bruno [de Segni]
    • Buckingham [John Sheffield]
    • Buckhurst [see Dorset]
    • Budaeus [Guillaume Budé]
    • Builder’s Dict.
    • Bull [George]
    • Burnet [Thomas]
    • Burton [Robert]
    • [Butler, Samuel] Hudibras
  • C - AUTHOR NAMES
    • Caius [John Kays]
    • Calamy [Edmund]
    • [Callimachus]
    • Calmet [Antoine Augustin]
    • Calvin [Johannes Wetteranus Calvinus]
    • Camden [William]
    • Carew [Richard]; Car.
    • Carew [Thomas]
    • Carte [Thomas] Life of Ormonde
    • Carter, Mrs. [Elizabeth]
    • Casaubin [Meric Casaubon]
    • Casseneuve [Cazeneuve, Pierre de]
    • Cave, Edward
    • Chambers [Ephraim]
    • Chapman [George]
    • Chaucer [Geoffrey]
    • Cheselden [William]
    • Chesterfield, Earl of [Philip Dormer Stanhope]
    • Chevy Chase
    • Cheyne [George]
    • Child [Josiah]
    • Children in the Wood
    • Chillingworth [William]
    • Church Catechism
    • Cicero [Marcus Tullius]
    • Clarendon [Edward Hyde]
    • Clarke [John]
    • Clarke [Samuel]
    • Cleaveland [John]; Cleavel
    • Cockburn [John]
    • Cock[er]; Cocker [Edward]
    • Coke [Edward]
    • [Collier, Jane] Art of Tormenting
    • Collier [Jeremy]; Collyer
    • Collins [William]
    • Colson [John]
    • Common Prayer
    • Concanen [Matthew]
    • Congreve [William]
    • Corbet, J.
    • Corbet; Corbet , Bp. [Corbett, Richard]
    • Cotton [Charles]
    • Cowel [John]
    • Cowley [Abraham]
    • Crashaw [Richard]
    • Creech [Thomas]
    • Cromwell [Henry]
    • Cromwel[l] [Thomas] to King Henry
    • Croxal [Samuel]
    • Cudworth [Ralph]
    • Cujas [Jacques]
  • D - AUTHOR NAMES
    • Daniel; Daniel’s Civil War [Samuel]
    • Daniel (Dr. Daniel in 4th) [Richard]
    • Davenant [Charles]
    • D'avenant [William]
    • Davies [John (Sir)]
    • Davies [John]
    • Decay of Piety; Decay [Allestree, Richard]?
    • [Defoe, Daniel] Robinson Crusoe
    • Delany [Patrick]
    • Denham [John]
    • Dennis [John]
    • Derham [William]
    • Destruction of Troy [Caxton, tr.]
    • D'Herbelot [Barthelemy]
    • Dict. [e.g. Bailey, Ainsworth, Phillips]
    • Dier [Samuel Dyer]
    • Digby [Kenelm]
    • Digby [Robert]; Digby to Pope
    • Digby [George] (Lord Digby to Sir Kenelm Digby)
    • Dodderidge [Philip Doddridge]
    • Dodsley’s Miscellany; Dodsley; Dodsley’s Agriculture [Robert Dodsley]
    • Donne [John]; Don.
    • Dorset [Charles Sackville]; Buckhurst
    • Douglas [Gavin]
    • Drayton [Michael]
    • Drummond [William]
    • Dryden [John]; Poem to Roscommon; Oedipus
    • Dryden, J. jun [John]
    • Du Cange [Charles Du Fresne Du Cange]
    • Duke [Richard]
    • Duncomb’s Life of Hughes [William Duncomb]
    • Duppa [Brian]
    • Dyer [John], Dier
  • E - AUTHOR NAMES
    • Eachard [John]
    • Eachard [Laurence Echard]
    • Ellis’s Voyage [Henry]
    • Epitaph on Vanbrugh [Evans, Abel]
    • Escape of King Charles
    • Evelyn [John]
    • Expedition to Carthagena [Charles Knowles]
  • F - AUTHOR NAMES
    • Fairfax [Edward]
    • Fanshaw [Richard]
    • Farquhar [George]
    • Farrier’s Dict.
    • Felibien [Andre]
    • Fell [John]
    • Felton [Henry]
    • Fenton [Elijah]
    • Ferne [Henry] Bishop
    • Fiddes [Richard]
    • Fielding [Henry]
    • Fisher [John]
    • Fitzgerald [Thomas]
    • Flatman [Thomas]
    • Fleetwood [William]
    • Fletcher [John}
    • Fletch, P. [Phineas Fletcher]
    • Floyer [John]
    • Forbes [Duncan]
    • Fortunatus; Vent. Fort. [Venantius Fortunatus]
    • Fox [John Foxe]
    • Francis [I] of France
    • Freeholder - see Addison
    • Freind [John]; (Friend in Abstr.)
    • Fryer, John
  • G - AUTHOR NAMES
    • Garlick [Thomas
    • Garretson [John]
    • Garrick’s Epilogue [David]
    • Garth [Samuel]
    • Gay [John]
    • Geddes [Michael]
    • Gerard [John]
    • Gibson [Edmond]; Gibson’s Camden
    • Giffard [Gifford, Richard]
    • Glanville [Glanvill, Joseph]
    • Glover, Richard
    • Goldsmith, Oliver
    • Goodman [John]
    • Gouldman [Francis]
    • Government of the Tongue
    • Gower, [John]
    • Grainger [James]
    • Granville [George]
    • Graunt [John]
    • Gray [Stephen]
    • Gray [Thomas]
    • [Greek] Anthology
    • Grew [Nehemiah]
    • Grosthead, Bishop [Robert Grosseteste or Grossetete]
    • Guardian [Richard Steele, Addison]
  • H - AUTHOR NAMES
    • Hacket [John]
    • Hakewell [Hakewill, George]; Hakewill
    • Hale [Matthew]
    • Hale, Dr. [Stephen Hales]
    • Halifax [Charles Montague]
    • Hall [Joseph]
    • Hammond [Henry]; Ham.
    • Hanmer [Thomas]
    • Harrington [John]
    • Harris [John]
    • Harte [Walter]
    • Harvey [Gideon]
    • Hawkesworth [John]
    • Hayward [John]
    • Hearne [Thomas]
    • Heigh [R.]
    • Henshaw [Thomas]
    • Herbert [George]
    • Herring [Thomas]
    • Hesychius [of Alexandria]
    • Heylin [Heylyn, Peter]
    • Hickes [George]
    • Hill, Aaron
    • Hill [John]
    • Holder [William]
    • Holinsh. [Raphael Holinshed]
    • Holyday [Barten]
    • Homer
    • Hooke’s Roman History [Nathaniel]
    • Hooker [Richard]; Hook.
    • Horace
    • Hough [John]
    • Hoveden (Howden) [Roger of Hoveden]
    • Howel [Howell, James]; How.
    • Hughes’s Spenc.; Hughes [John]
  • I - AUTHOR NAMES
    • Introduction to Grammar [Garretson, John]
  • J - AUTHOR NAMES
    • James’s Voyage [Thomas]
    • Jervas [Charles]
    • Jewel [John]
    • [Johnson, Samuel] Irene, Savage’s Life, London; Rambler, Vanity of Human Wishes; Johnson (Vanity); Comment.[ary] on Pope’s Essay on Man
    • [Jonson, Benjamin] Johnson, Ben
    • Junius [Francis]
  • K - AUTHOR NAMES
    • [Kane] Cane
    • Keil [Keill, John]
    • Ken [Thomas]
    • Kennet [White Kennett]
    • Kettlewell [John]; Kettleworth
    • King [William]; King’s Cookery
    • King Charles [Charles I]
    • King James [I]
    • King James [James II; James VII of Scotland]; K. James's Declaration
    • Knolles [Richard]
  • L - AUTHOR NAMES
    • L’Acad. [Dictionnnaire l’Academie francaise]
    • Latimer [Hugh]
    • Lauderdale [John Maitland]
    • Law [William]
    • Lawrence, Dr. [Thomas]
    • Layer's Trial
    • Lee [Nathaniel]
    • [Lennox, Charlotte] Female Quixote; Shakespeare Illustrated
    • Lesley [Leslie, Charles]
    • L’Estrange [Roger]
    • Lewis [David] ; Lewis’s Miscel.
    • Lib. Londiniensis
    • Lily [William]
    • Littleton [Thomas] (also Lyttleton, de Littleton)
    • Littlet. ; Littleton, Dr. [Edward]
    • Lloyd [William]
    • Locke [John]
    • Logie
    • London Dispensatory
    • Lye [Edward]
    • [Lyttelton, George] Littleton on the Conversion of St. Paul
  • M - AUTHOR NAMES
    • Macbean [Alexander]; Macbean’s Remonstrance
    • Mackenzie [George]
    • Madden [Samuel]
    • Maine; Maine, Dr. Jasper [Mayne]
    • Malcolm [Alexander]
    • Mandeslo [Mandelslo, John Albrecht]
    • Mandeville; Maundeville [John]
    • Manger's French Grammar
    • Manwood [John]
    • Mareschal [Thomas Marshall]
    • Markham [Gervase]
    • Martial
    • Martin [Benjamin]
    • Mart. Scribl. [Martinus Scriblerus]
    • Marvel[l] [Andrew]
    • May [Thomas]
    • Mead [Richard]
    • Melmouth [William Melmoth]
    • Menage [Giles]
    • Middleton [Thomas, and Decker, Thomas]
    • Military Dict.
    • Miller [Philip]
    • Milton [John]; Par. Regained; Par. Lost
    • [Minsheu] Minshew [John]
    • Molineux [William Molyneaux]
    • Moore [Edward]; Moore’s Fables; Moore’s Foundling
    • More’s Life of Sir Thomas More [Christopher Cresacre]
    • More [Henry]
    • More [Thomas]
    • Moreton [Anne]
    • Mortimer [John]
    • Motteux [Peter Anthony]
    • Moxon [Joseph]
    • Mulso, Mrs. [Hester Chapone]
    • Murphy [Arthur]
    • Muschenbrock [Musschenbroek, Pieter van]
  • N - AUTHOR NAMES
    • Nelson [Robert]
    • Newcastle [Margaret], Dutchess [Duchess] of
    • Newton [Isaac[
    • Newton [Thomas]
    • Nicene Creed
    • Nigel de Wetekre
    • Nichols
    • Norris [John]
  • O - AUTHOR NAMES
    • Ogle [George]
    • Old Comedy
    • Old Song
    • Oldham [John]
    • Oldham’s Life [Robert Shiels/Theophilis Cibber]
    • Orrery [Charles Boyle, 4th Earl]
    • Orrery [John Boyle, 5th earl]
    • Orrery [Roger Boyle, 1st Earl]
    • Otway [Thomas]
    • Oxford Reasons Against the Covenant
    • Ozenam [Ozanam, Jacques]
  • P - AUTHOR NAMES
    • Parnel [Parnell, Thomas]
    • Pasquier [Etienne]
    • Pattison [William]
    • Peacham [Henry]
    • Pearce [Zachary]
    • Pearson [John]
    • Pemberton [Henry]
    • Perkins [William]
    • Pezron [Paul-Yves]
    • Philips [Ambrose] ; Phillips, A.
    • Phillips; [Philips, John]
    • Phillips, Edward
    • Phil. Trans.
    • Pierce [Thomas]; Pierce’s Lett.
    • Pineda [Pedro]
    • Pope [and various works][Alexander]; Pype >
      • Imitations of Horace
    • Pope, Dr. [Walter]
    • Prideaux [Humphrey]
    • Prior [Matthew]
  • Q - AUTHOR NAMES
    • Quarles [Francis]
    • Quincy [John]
  • R - AUTHOR NAMES
    • S - AUTHOR NAMES >
      • Salernum, School of
      • Salmasius [Claudius]; Saumaise [Claude]
      • Salmon’s Survey; Salmon [Nathanael]
      • [Sanderson, Robert] Saunderson; Sanderson
      • Sandys [George]; San.
      • Sappho
      • Savage [Richard]
      • Savary [Jacques Savary du Bruslon and Louis-Philemon Savary]
      • Scaliger [Joseph Justinian]
      • Scotch Proverb
      • Sea Dict. [Capt. John Smith]
      • [Sedley, Charles] Sidley
      • Seed’s Sermons [Jeremiah]
      • Selden [John]
      • Sewel [George Sewell]
      • Shadwell [Thomas]
      • Shakespeare [William]
      • Sharpe [Samuel]; Sharp.
      • Shaw [Peter]
      • Shaw; Shaw’s Gramm. [Samuel]
      • Shelvock [Shelvocke, George]
      • Sherburne [Edward]
      • Sherlock [Thomas]
      • Sidney [Philip]
      • Skelton [Philip]
      • Skinner [Stephen]
      • Smalridge [George]; Smallridge
      • Smart [Christopher]
      • Smith [Edmund]
      • Smith [John]
      • Somerville [William]
      • Somner [William]
      • Song
      • Song of the King and the Miller
      • South [Robert]
      • Southern[e]; Southerne [Thomas]
      • Sparrow, Dr. [Anthony]
      • Spectator [Addison and Steele]
      • Spelman [Henry]
      • Spenser [Edmund]; Hubberd’s Tale; Fairy Queen
      • Spratt [Sprat, Thomas]
      • Steele [Richard] to Pope
      • W - AUTHOR NAMES >
        • W____n [Waldren]
        • Wafer [Lionel]
        • Wake [William]
        • Walker [William]
        • Waller [Edmund]
        • Waller’s Life
        • Wallis [John]
        • Walsh [William]
        • Walton [Izaak]
        • Wandering Pr.[Prince] of Troy
        • Warburton [William]
        • Ward [Seth]
        • Warton’s Spencer [Thomas Warton; Wharton’s [Warton’s] Isis; Progress of Discontent
        • Wase [Christopher]
        • Waterland [Daniel]
        • Watts [Isaac]; Wat.
        • Welsted [Leonard]
        • Wesley [Samuel]
        • West [Gilbert]
        • Westmonasteriensis, Matt. [Matthew Paris]
        • White [Francis]
        • Whitgift [John]; Whitgifte
        • Whole Duty of Man; Duty of Man [Allestree?]
        • Widow and Cat
        • Wilkins [John]
        • William of Wykeham
        • Wise [Francis]
        • Wiseman [Richard]
        • Wollaston [William]
        • Wood [Anthony]
        • Woodward [John]; Woodw.
        • Wotton [Henry]
        • Wycherley [William]
        • X - AUTHOR NAMES
      • Steevens [George]
      • Stephens [William]; Stephen’s Sermons
      • Stepney [George]
      • Sternhold [Thomas]
      • Steuart
      • Stillingfleet [Edward]
      • Stone [Edmund]
      • [Strype] Memoir in Strype [John]
      • Suckling [John]
      • Swift [Jonathan]; Gulliver
      • Sylvester [Joshua]
    • Raleigh [Walter]
    • Ralph [James]
    • Ray [John]
    • Reynolds [Joshua]
    • Richards [Nathanael]; N. Richards
    • [Richardson, Samuel] Clarissa; Pamela; Richardson’s Pamela
    • Robert of Gloucester
    • [Rochester, Wilmot, 2nd Earl of]
    • Rogers [John]
    • Roscommon [Wentworth Dillon]
    • Rowe [Nicholas]
    • Rowe’s Life [?James Welwood]
    • Rowland[s] [Henry]
    • [Rudyerd, Benjamin] Rudgerd
    • Rymer [Thomas]
  • Randolph [Thomas]; T. Randolph; Tho. Randolph
  • T - AUTHOR NAMES
    • Taliessyn [Taliesen]
    • Taylor [John] the Water-poet
    • Tate [Nahum]
    • Tatler
    • Temple [William] >
      • Taylor [Jeremy]
    • Theobald [Lewis]
    • Thomson [James]
    • Topsell [Edward] Book of Animals
    • Tickel [Thomas]; Tickle
    • Trapp [Joseph]
    • Trevoux [Dictionnaire de Trevoux]
    • Tillotson [John]
    • [Trumbull, William] Trumball;Trumbull
    • Turberville [George]
    • Turnebus [Adrien Turnebe]
    • Tusser [Thomas]
  • Unattributed phrase or definition
  • Unknown correspondent (a)
  • U - AUTHOR NAMES
    • Unknown correspondent (b)
  • V - AUTHOR NAMES
    • Vanbrugh [John]
    • Virgil
    • Verses on Cleaveland
    • Verstegan (Rowlands, Richard)
  • Y - AUTHOR NAMES
    • Young [Edward]
    • Yalden [Thomas]
  • Z - AUTHOR NAMES
  • Brown[e] [Isaac Hawkins]
  • Henley [John]
  • [Trevisa] John de Trevisa
  • Knighton [Henry]
  • New Page
  • Baxter [Richard]
  • Authorities added in the 1773 Dictionary
  • Gentleman Instructed
  • John Brown
  • Upton, [John]