- Authority Cited: Tate
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Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: about 18 Tate cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 1, 18 cites in Dict. vol. 2. Three cites were identified as added in the 1773 Dict., indicated in bold italic below.]
The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis.: Translated into English verse by Mr. Dryden and Several other Eminent Hands . : Together with the Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccid. 1693, London: Printed for Jacob Tonson, at the Judge's-Head in Chancery-Lane, near Fleetstreet [BKG Note: per the Table of Contents, Tate translated the Second and Fifteenth Satires. All of the Tate cites from this title are from the Fifteenth Satire. The edition used by SJ is unknown.]
- Juvenal, Fifteenth Satyr; banter; bigot; boat; clove; come in; cropsick; dispense; enshrine; for; forge; fret; garlick; giddy; go; gore; grudge; hear; ill; luck; lump (same quote as go); make (same quote as go); man; morsel (same quote as go); perpetrate; practice (same quote as banter); rank; romancer (same quote as banter); sally (same quote as man); scoundrel; smith (same quote as forge); soil (same quote as come in); spot; stagger (same quote as giddy); straggle (same quote as rank); take; tribe (same quote as rank);
On the Spectator, by Mr. Tate, Spectator No. 488; successour;
To my ingenious friend, the author, upon his judicious and useful performance, [by] N. Tate, Poet Laureate in A guide to the English tongue. In two parts. The First proper for Beginners, shewing a Natural and Easy Method to pronounce and express both Common Words, and Proper Names; in which particular Care is had to shew the Accent for preventing Vicious Pronunciation. The Second, for such as are advanc'd to some Ripeness of Judgment, containing Observations on the Sound of Letters and Diphthongs, Rules for the true Division of Syllables, and the Use of Capitals, Stops and Marks, with large Tables of Abbreviations and Distinctions of Words, and several Alphabets of Instructions for Young Writers. By Tho. Dyche Shool-Master in London. The Second Edition, Corrected. 1710, London: printed for Sam. Butler at Bernard's-Inn-Gate in Holbourn; serve (added in 1773 Dict.) [BKG Note: the edition of this title used by SJ is unknown. The 65th edition was published in 1788.]
To the Unknown Author of this Excellent Poem in Absalom and Achitophel, a poem. [by John Dryden] 1681, London : Printed for J.T. and are to be sold by W. Davis; heat (added in 1773 Dict.); strike (added in 1773 Dict., same quote as heat); "Though they the lines on golden anvils beat, It looks as if they struck them at a heat." [BKG Note: SJ identifies this with Tate, others have attributed the laudatory poem to Nathaniel Lee.]
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