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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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Where do we go from here?  Can the word list be edited?
Can the quotations illustrating the words of Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language be traced to their sources and their adjustments by Johnson for use in the dictionary determined?
  • Editing the Dictionary word list has previously been deemed "too vast."
  • Has the internet and book digitization changed the game?
​​
​The GOAL (where we want to be):
  • Each Dictionary authority in the word list of the 1st and 4th editions identified (mostly done on this web site)
  • Each work of each authority identified (partly done on this web site)
  • A link, or directions, to an electronic version of each source work
  • Dictionary quotations or citations collected under the work cited in the Dictionary for each author
  • The definition (sense) that the quotation illustrates for the head word recorded or linked
  • The text of the quotation, as it appears in the source, recorded
  • Differences between the 1st and 4th Dictionary editions recorded
  • Bibliographic information about the source work recorded
​

​Possible Paths Forward
​The following Template Format links provide examples of the type of information collection/recording needed.
  • Recording the quotations as entered in the Dictionary. Pope: Imitations of Horace
  • Recording the quotations as they appear in the source work. Abbot: Brief Description of the Whole World
Neither example provides an entirely satisfactory approach.  The images called for in Example 1, while an elegant way of presenting the information, would be challenging to copy or scan and crop in an efficient manner for all quotations in both the 1st and 4th editions.  The challenge in first collecting source quotations for each author in Example 2 is the limitations in search tools for the PDF or other file formats to identify all word list entries attributed to a particular authority.  (Only 20 Abbot quotations were located with a search on "Abbot" in the 1st edition PDF file compared to the 80+ total from electronic searches of several editions.  A better search tool might make this approach feasible).

Perhaps a more promising approach would involve establishing a base-line electronic file of the 1st and 4th editions which could be tagged with links to a source document, and cross-links between the same head-word sense in the 1st and 4th edition.  Some attempts have been made to do this in the past, but nothing currently available seems capable of forming the base for systematic collection and display of the information needed to edit the word list by comparing Dictionary entries with the source quotations.

Please tell us your experiences and give us your
suggestions and perspectives!


Independent of what the final collection and organization format is (assuming one is feasible) a needed intermediate step is to find, document, and, when possible, link the 2000 source works of the 460 authors on this web site.  It would be nice to have information on and links to the source edition that Johnson used, but we will be happy to find electronic files of source editions earlier than the dictionary publication dates.

Please email us with information on electronic files for the works listed on the author pages on this web site.

The purpose of this web site is to collect and organize information that will facilitate scholarly efforts related to the Dictionary sources and Johnson's use of the sources, and related educational endeavors.  Please use the information on this web site in your own Johnson studies.  There should be adequate information on the site to allow an independent check of facts.  Of course, any mention you make of this sjdictionarysources.org web site would be appreciated. 



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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]