Authority Cited: Holder
Author name and dates: William Holder (1616-1698)
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Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: about 135 Holder cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 1 (of which about 66 are indicated as from Elements of Speech and 33 from Time). About 134 Holder cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 2. (of which about 34 are indicated as from Elements of Speech and 26 from Time). The cites referencing only "Holder" appear to be from the two titles below. One added cite in the 1773 Dict. was identified, indicated in bold italic below. The editions of the titles below used by SJ are unknown.]
Author name and dates: William Holder (1616-1698)
Creative Commons License, National Portrait Gallery
BKG Bio-tweet: Cleric; composer; music theorist: Principles of Harmony; taught deaf-mute to speak plainly
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: about 135 Holder cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 1 (of which about 66 are indicated as from Elements of Speech and 33 from Time). About 134 Holder cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 2. (of which about 34 are indicated as from Elements of Speech and 26 from Time). The cites referencing only "Holder" appear to be from the two titles below. One added cite in the 1773 Dict. was identified, indicated in bold italic below. The editions of the titles below used by SJ are unknown.]
- Elements of Speech: an Essay of Inquiry into the Natural Production of Letters, with an Appendix concerning persons deaf & dumb, by William Holder, D.D., Fellow of the R. Society, London: 1669 Printed by T.N. for J. Martyn Printer to the R. Society, at the Bell without Temple-Bar; (per Wimsatt, Philosophic Words, p. 154); abstruse; accent; accident; . . . flaccid; . . . labial; . . . labiodental; . . . lax; . . . medium; . . . quiescent; . . . tension; . . .
- A discourse concerning time, with application of the natural day, and lunar month, and solar year, as natural; And of such as are derived from them; As Artificial Parts of Time, for Measures in Civil and Common Use: for the better understanding of the Julian year and calendar. The First Column also in our Church-Calendar explained. With other incidental remarks. The second edition. By William Holder, D. D. late Canon Residentiary of St. Paul's, London; and Fellow of the Royal Society, 1701 London, printed by J. Heptinstall, for Phil. Monkton, at the Star in St. Paul's Church-Yard , (1st ed. 1694); (per Wimsatt, Philosophic Words, p. 154); anticipation; . . . chronology; . . . excentricity; . . . incommensurate; . . . laterally; . . .
- Holder (no work cited); conseqution; . . . extensible; fescue; . . . measure; . . . mensurable; . . .