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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 [Benjamin]
    • [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]
    • Evelyn [John, the Younger]
    • 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 [J------ G------- ]
    • Garretson [John]
    • Garrick’s Epilogue [David]
    • Garth [Samuel]
    • Gay [John]
    • Geddes [Michael]
    • Gentleman Instructed
    • 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
  • 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 [Richard 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 [William Nicholls]
    • 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
        • Jones, Capt.
        • 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]
  • U - AUTHOR NAMES
    • Unattributed phrase or definition
    • Unknown correspondent (a)
    • Unknown correspondent (b)
    • Unknown correspondent (a)
  • 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
  • John Brown
  • Upton, [John]
  • Cervantes
  • Lucas [Richard]
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Authority Cited: Spratt [Sprat, Thomas]
Author name and dates: Thomas Sprat (1635-1713)

BKG Bio-tweet: High political church offices; set Royal Academy standards for clarity in scientific papers; popular preacher; elegant prose

Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: about 91 Sprat cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 1, about 96 cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 2.  One Sprat citation added in the 1773 Dict. is indicated in bold italic below.  Also cited as Spratt; sometimes in the 1755 Dict., often in the 1773 Dict.  All Sprat cites, except adorn, appear to be from Sprat's Sermons.  The edition of Sprat's Sermons used by SJ is unknown.  Editions of 1696 and 1710 were published in Sprat's lifetime.  A volume of Sermons are mentioned in passing in SJ's later Life of Sprat, but he does not comment on them.  The edition of the History of the Royal Society used by SJ is also unknown.  There was a 1723 edition.]
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  • History of the Royal Society: The history of the Royal-Society of London for the improving of natural knowledge by Tho. Sprat, 1667, London: Printed by T. R. for J. Martyn at the Bell without Temple-bar and J. Allestry at the Rose and Crown in Duck-lane, Printers to the Royal Society; adorn (p.324); 
 
  • Sermons: Sermons preached on several occasions. By the Right Reverend Father in God, Thomas Sprat, D. D. late Lord Bishop of Rochester, and Dean of Westminster, 1722, London: Printed for R. Bonwicke, J. Walthoe, R. Wilkin, B. Tooke, J. Ward, and E. Nutt; absolutely; according; administration; affection; affectionate; ardently; argument; . . . lane; largeness; like; . . . zeal (same quote as affection); zealous.
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  • Sprat (no work cited); abundantly (same quote as purify) advantage; allege; along; anchoret/anchorite; apostasy; . . . beseech . . . large; lukewarmness; . . . purify . . . zealot.

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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 [Benjamin]
    • [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]
    • Evelyn [John, the Younger]
    • 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 [J------ G------- ]
    • Garretson [John]
    • Garrick’s Epilogue [David]
    • Garth [Samuel]
    • Gay [John]
    • Geddes [Michael]
    • Gentleman Instructed
    • 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
  • 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 [Richard 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 [William Nicholls]
    • 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
        • Jones, Capt.
        • 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]
  • U - AUTHOR NAMES
    • Unattributed phrase or definition
    • Unknown correspondent (a)
    • Unknown correspondent (b)
    • Unknown correspondent (a)
  • 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
  • John Brown
  • Upton, [John]
  • Cervantes
  • Lucas [Richard]