Authority Cited: Quincy, Quincey, Quinc., Quin., Qui., Qu.
Author name and dates: John Quincy (d.1722)
BKG Bio-tweet: Apothecary; lecturer; poet; friend of Mead, enemy of Woodward; Lexicon based on Castelli; SJ uses many Q. def. w/o attrib.
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: about 247 Quincy cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 1, about 137 Quincy cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 2. No added Quincy cites were identified in the 1773 Dict. All Quincy cites appear to be only by name, with no text identified. See also Dict.]
Author name and dates: John Quincy (d.1722)
BKG Bio-tweet: Apothecary; lecturer; poet; friend of Mead, enemy of Woodward; Lexicon based on Castelli; SJ uses many Q. def. w/o attrib.
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: about 247 Quincy cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 1, about 137 Quincy cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 2. No added Quincy cites were identified in the 1773 Dict. All Quincy cites appear to be only by name, with no text identified. See also Dict.]
- Lexicon physico-medicum: or, a new medicinal dictionary; explaining the difficult terms used in the several branches of the profession, and in such Parts of Natural Philosophy as are introductory thereto: with An account of the Things Signified by such Terms. Collected From the most eminent Authors; and particularly those who have wrote upon Mechanical Principles. By John Quincy, M.D. The Fourth Edition, with new improvements from the latest Chymical and Mechanical authors, 1730; London: printed for J. Osborn and T. Longman, at the Ship in Pater-Noster-Row; abdomen (p.2); abrasion (p.3); absorbent (p.4); acerb (p.6); achor (p.6); acid[s] (p.7); acidulae (p.6); acme (p.7); acousticks (p.8); acute (p.9); . . . idiosyncrasy (p.217); . . . laxity (p.240) . . . whites (found in text, p.171, under fluor albus): 1st ed. 1719. (per Wimsatt, Philosophic Words, p. 156: "The passage quoted in the Dictionary s.v. laxity shows that Johnson used some edition later than the second, of 1722. The fourth, 1730, the fifth, 1731, and the sixth, 1747, all have the qualifying passage.")
- Quincy (no work cited); acclivity (not found in the above text or in the 1749 text, or in the later 1787 text; a similar definition appears in the Bailey Dictionary).