Authority Cited: Grew
Author name and dates: Nehemiah Grew (1641-1712)
BKG Bio-tweet: Plant anatomist; pioneering microscope work on pollens; genus grewia in his honor; also cosmological studies
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Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: about 220 Grew cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 1, about 250 Grew cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 2. Four cites identified as added in the 1773 Dict. are indicated in bold italic below. All headwords sampled that list only "Grew" as the citation were found to be from one of the two titles below. The approximately 160 headwords sampled below were principally from the letters A, B, E, K, L, N, and Q. Item #358 in the Sale Catalogue of Samuel Johnson's Library, ed. Fleeman is "3. Grew's cosmologica sacra, 1701, &c." See also Wimsatt, Philosophic Words, p. 153.]
Author name and dates: Nehemiah Grew (1641-1712)
BKG Bio-tweet: Plant anatomist; pioneering microscope work on pollens; genus grewia in his honor; also cosmological studies
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Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: about 220 Grew cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 1, about 250 Grew cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 2. Four cites identified as added in the 1773 Dict. are indicated in bold italic below. All headwords sampled that list only "Grew" as the citation were found to be from one of the two titles below. The approximately 160 headwords sampled below were principally from the letters A, B, E, K, L, N, and Q. Item #358 in the Sale Catalogue of Samuel Johnson's Library, ed. Fleeman is "3. Grew's cosmologica sacra, 1701, &c." See also Wimsatt, Philosophic Words, p. 153.]
- Cosmologia sacra: or a discourse of the universe as it is the creature and kingdom of God. Chiefly written, to demonstrate the truth and Excellency of the Bible; which contains the Laws of his Kingdom in this Lower World. In five books. By Dr. Nehemiah Grew, Fellow of the College of Physicians, and of the Royal Society. 1701, London: printed for W. Rogers, S. Smith, and B. Walford: At the Sun against St. Dunstan's Church in Fleetstreet; and at the Prince's Arms in St. Paul's Church-Yard; abjectness; abolition; acceptableness; acquiesce; alchymist; alternate; āanimadvert; apostemation; appendant; arithmetical; asterisk, asymmetry; asymptote; at; attainment; audible; beat; beauty-spot; becomingness; betrust; birdlime; blow; break; brutish; by-gone; calorific; can; capital; caprichio (added in 1773 Dict., capriccio in text); ... deck; delightsome; denizen/denison; ... elective; electively; emendation; encampment; energetick; energy; ethnick; evenness; exhibition; exility; exoneration; expansibility; expansible; expansion; extensibility; famously; fantastically; federal; ... froth (added in 1773 Dict.); ā... gambrel; give; glaze; ... hoofed; hooked; ... ill; immense; impeachable; keel; knock; lapidifick; libration; liege; ligneous (lignous in text); lining; lock; lucifick; lumber; magnanimous; ... narrow; neoterick (same quote as caprichio); nothing; nourishable; null; obelisk (same quote as asterisk); obeseness; ... parenchymatous/parenchymous (same quote as ligneous); parotid; ... quadrangular; quick; quiescent; rang; ... salivary (salival in quote and text, same quote as birdlime); salivation; sapience; saturable; ... tack; ... vainly; vehement (same quote as alchymist); venery; ... ward; wencher; ...
- Musaeum Regalis Societatis; or a Catalogue and Description of the Rarities Belonging to the Royal Society, and Preserved at Gresham Colledge. By Nathaniel Grew, M.D. Fellow of the Royal Society and of the Colledge of Physicians. 1681 , London, Printed by W. Rawlins for the Author (also a 1685 edition, Printed for Tho. Malthus, at the Sun in the Poultrey); acritude; affusion; agreeableness; ambit; antimonial; amesthystine (added in 1773 Dict.); approximation; blindworm; bloblipped; bobbinwork; blow;ā box; breech; breed; bristle; bumbast; bunchy; bury; butterfly; by; cancellated; catcher; dank; declarative; denticulation; dentifrice; ... effervescence; ejaculate; evaporable; excarnate; expeditely; extenuate; gently; geometrical/geometrick; ... haircloth; honey-bag; ... ignite; ... kecky; kern; kit; kite (same quote as leopard); knobbed (knobed in text); ... lap (2); lapwork; lead; leathery; leopard; lientrick; limy; lock; loom; lutarious; magisterial; magnificently; maintain; ... nibble; notch (2); ... offensiveness; ... paroquet (parroqueet in text); parrot (same quote as parpquet); rapier-fish; ... tabulated; tail; tailed; ... taper (added in 1773 Dict.); ā... vitriolick; ... wainscot (wanscot in text, which refers to worms rather than buildings); weftage; ...
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