Authority Cited: Casaubin [Casaubon]
Author name and dates: Meric Casaubon (1599-1671)
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Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: six Casaubon cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 1, six in Dict. vol. 2. No additional Casaubon cites were identified as added in the 1773 Dict. Per Yale vol. 18, p.41, n.4, the Casaubon work consulted by SJ for etymologies was the title below. In Johnson the Philologist, 1988, Diasuke Nagashima suggests (pp.166-169) that the views of Minsheu, Casaubon, Somner, and Verstegan for some headwords were adduced and discussed via their entries in Skinner rather than in source volumes.]
Author name and dates: Meric Casaubon (1599-1671)
BKG Bio-tweet: Classical scholar, humanist, Latin trans.; church offices revoked by Cromwell; SJ references in etymologies
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: six Casaubon cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 1, six in Dict. vol. 2. No additional Casaubon cites were identified as added in the 1773 Dict. Per Yale vol. 18, p.41, n.4, the Casaubon work consulted by SJ for etymologies was the title below. In Johnson the Philologist, 1988, Diasuke Nagashima suggests (pp.166-169) that the views of Minsheu, Casaubon, Somner, and Verstegan for some headwords were adduced and discussed via their entries in Skinner rather than in source volumes.]
- āDe Quatuor Linguis Commentationis, Pars Prior: Quae, De Lingua Hebraica et, De Lingua Saxonica. 1650, Londini : Typis J. Flesher, sumptibus Ric. Mynne ...
- Casaubon (no work cited); broke (Casanbon), clog, cloud (Casaubin), dream, girl, hone, peep, prowl, racket, scamble, spruce, toss. Two typographical errors in name citation corrected in 1773 Dict.