Index
Citations of the dictionaries used most frequently in this study (the OED, Bailey, Coles, Kersey, Johnson, Phillips) are not indexed except where these dictionaries themselves are discussed.
Abraham, Lyndy
114
Académie des sciences
102
Académie française
107
Accademia del Cimento
102
Acta eruditorum
105
Addison, Joseph
51, 60, 66, 110, 161, 167
Adler, Mortimer
79
Adolph, Robert
111
Agrippa, Cornelius
36, 40
Alder, Ken
94
Anstey, Christopher
177
Aristotle
99, 101–2, 107, 109, 121
Armitage, David
156
Ash, John
17, 95, 97, 127
Astell, Mary
82
Atkinson, Dwight
103, 105
Aubrey, John
114, 127, 181
Auden, W. H.
129
Austen, Jane
4, 10, 137, 139, 141, 177
Austin, John
5
Aylmer, G. E.
31
Bacon, Francis
78, 103–4, 109, 124, 127
Bailey, Joanne
49
Bailey, Nathan
17, 25, 35, 36, 38, 40, 70, 72, 74–6, 78–9, 85, 114, 179
Bailey, R. W.
22
Ball, Terence
12, 147
Banks, Joseph
146, 166
Barfield, Owen
5
Barker-Benfield, G. J.
66
Barrow, Isaac
103, 112
Barry, Jonathan
86
Bate, Walter Jackson
178
Bayle, Pierre
72, 80, 105
Beccaria, Cesare Bonesana
36
Begriffsgeschichte
12
Béjoint, Henri
17, 70
Bentham, Jeremy
163
Berg, Maxine
58
Berkeley, Bishop George
146
Berlin, Isaiah
83, 156
B. E.’s Dictionary of the Canting Crew
140
Bex, Tony
73
Bible, the
53, 74, 81, 108, 166
Bill of Rights
81
Black, Joseph
166
Black, Max
6
Blackstone, Sir William
29, 32, 70–1, 80, 88
Blair, Ann
73
Blanning, Tim
33, 56, 159–60
Bloom, Edward and Lillian
161
Blount, Thomas
126–27
Bluestockings, the
156–59
Blumenbach, Johann
166–67
Blunden, Edmund Charles
129
Bolingbroke, Henry St. John, viscount
160
Boole, George
108
Borsay, Peter
87
Boswell, James
2, 164, 170
Boulton, Matthew
58
Boyle, Robert
77, 100–4, 106, 112–14, 116–17, 121
Bradley, Henry
127–8
Brand, John
179
Braudel, Fernand
164
Brewer, Charlotte
128
Brewer, John
45, 70, 87, 131, 161
Briggs, Asa
45
Britten, James
15, 23, 94
Brooke, Henry
178
Brown, J., The Directory
77
Brown, Roger
90
Browne, Sir Thomas
75, 110
Bryson, Anna
52
Buckhurst, Charles Sackville, Lord
51
Bullokar, John
16, 74
Bunyan, John
15
Burchfield, R. W.
128
Burke, Edmund
62
Burke, Peter
5, 7, 60, 105, 107
Burney, Charles
70
Burney, Fanny
136, 138, 140–41, 176–78
Burrow, John
165
Burtt, Edwin Arthur
101, 113
Butler, Samuel
24, 108
Byron, George Gordon, Lord
10, 139, 177
Cabal, the
85
Campbell, George
73
Cash, Arthur
83
Cassini, Gian Domenico
103
Cassirer, Ernst
69, 77
Castell, Edmund
103
Castiglione, Baldassare, conte
134
Cato’s Letters
82–3
Cawdrey, Robert
16, 17, 126
Century Dictionary, The
127
Chambers, Ephraim
39–41, 70, 72, 76, 78, 100, 124
Charles II
30, 51–2, 81, 101–2, 106, 110
Charleton, Walter
103
Chatham
–,
see Pitt, William
Cheke, Sir John
112
Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th earl of
46
Chippendale, Thomas
55
Chomsky, Noam
108
Cicero, Marcus Tullius
107
Clark, J. C. D.
45, 50, 80, 146
Clark, Peter
21, 22, 60
Clark, Stuart
40
Cleland, John
138, 170, 175
Clément, Nicolas
71
Cobbett, William
20
Cockayne, Emily
24, 54
Cockeram, Henry
16, 126–27
Coffee-houses
60–1
Cohen, Michèle
170
Coleman, Julie
73, 126, 141
Coles, Elisha
3, 16, 17, 39, 69, 74, 76, 85
Collier, Jeremy
52
Condillac, Etienne Bonnot de
6
Congreve, William
51–2
Connoisseur, The
58
Considine, John
17, 70, 123
Coote, Edmund
17
Cornforth, John
55
Cotgrave, Randle
22
Cowan, Brian
58, 60–1
Cowell, John
25 168
Cowley, Abraham
103
Craveri, Benedetta
60, 62
Crawford, Katharine
49, 179
Crawford, Patricia
26
Crocker, Lester
168
Cromwell, Oliver
52, 81
Crosland, Maurice
114–15
Crousaz, Jean Pierre de
163
Crowley, John
53, 55
Crystal, David
15, 113, 117
Cullen, William
115, 166
Culture
7
Courtly
2
Language and
1–3, 123, 142–44
Middle-class
2, 43, 52, 137
Working-class
2, 15
Cultural change
6, 10–12, 43
Curzon, Anne
128
D’Alembert, Jean le Rond
62, 69
Dalgarno, George
77, 108
Darnton, Robert
169
Dasher, Richard
11, 148
Davidson, Caroline
18
Davis, Edward
117
Dawson, Hannah
124
Dear, Peter
38, 40, 69, 103, 113–14, 121–22, 165
Dee, John
36
Defoe, Daniel
2, 37, 107, 110, 161
Deism, Deists
4, 168
DeMaria, Robert
73
Demos, E. Virginia
144
Dennett, Daniel
125, 144–45
Descartes, René
101, 122
Deutscher, Guy
6
Devonshire, Georgiana, Duchess of
177
De Vries, Jan
53, 56, 58
Diamond, Graeme
129
Dictionaries
16, 72, 125–30
Diderot, Denis
80, 104, 169
Digby, Kenelm
27
Dobson, C. R.
18
Dolezal, Frederic
17
Dryden, John
52, 57, 65, 75, 92, 103, 106
Dupré, Louis
168
Durkin, Philip
46, 56, 61–2, 123, 139, 145
Dwyer, John
65
Dyck, Ian
21
Earle, Alice
19, 179–80
Earle, Peter
8, 24, 26, 50, 86, 181
Eddy, Matthew
115, 165–66
Edelstein, Dan
60, 167–68
Edgworth, Maria
177
Eger, Elizabeth
159
Emerton, Norma
113
Encyclopedias
72
Encyclopedia Britannica
70–1, 76, 79, 100
Encyclopédie
69, 104
English
6, 7, 13, 15.
Words
.
Address forms
7, 43, 50, 53
Dialects
3, 15–7, 19–22, 35, 73–4, 130, 132, 179
Early Modern
4, 62, 106
Local
15, 74, 79, 96–7, 125, 131–33, 181
Middle-class
8, 10, 13, 163
Standardization in
68, 72–4, 79
English Theophrastus
64
Epicurus
113
Epstein, James
45
Etherege, George
47, 52, 62, 65
Evelyn, John
27, 63, 71, 100, 105, 111–12
Exclusion crisis
84–5, 90, 160
Fabricius, Johan Christian
, 166
Fairchild’s Dictionary of Textiles, 7th ed.
180
Farquhar, George
137, 175
Fastnedge, Ralph
55
Feingold, Mordechai
104
Ferguson, Adam
153, 165
Fielding, Henry
33, 46, 62, 86, 91, 138, 140, 155, 157, 175–76, 178
Finkenstaedt, Thomas
112
Flamsteed, John
103
Fleischacker, Sam
81
Fletcher, Anthony
25
Fludd, Robert
36
Fontenelle, Bernard le Bovier de
80
Forest Law
34, 42
Foucault, Michel
71, 168
Fox, Adam
127, 133
Fox, George
37
Frängsmyr, Tore
93
Franklin, Ben
2, 28, 87, 92
Frege, Gottlob
108
Freud, Sigmund
144
Fruchtman, Jack
71
Galileo, Galilei
98, 102
Gammon, Vic
21
Gamut, L. T. F.
109
Gascoigne, George
112
Gascoigne, John
146, 166–67
Gatrell, Vic
176
Gay, John
149, 169
Gay, Peter
165, 168–69
Geber, pseudo-
113
George III
83
Gibson, W.
23
Gibbon, Edward
168
Gil Blas
178
Gilligan, Carol
157
Gilman, Albert
90
Glasse, Hannah
28, 29
Goddard, Cliff
109
Goldberg, David Theo
167
Goldie, Mark
45, 85
Goldsmith, Oliver
167, 169
Golinski, Jan
114
Goodman, Dena
169
Google
118, 125, 129–130, 176–78, 180, 202
Görlach, Manfred
17, 131
Gough, Richard
68
Gowing, Laura
49
Graunt, John
120
Graves, Joseph
167
Grew, Nehemiah
103
Griffiths, Elizabeth
159
Grose, Francis
48, 130
Guillory, John
110
Guldin, Paul
122
Guugu Yiimithirr (the language)
6
Habakkuk, John
49
Habeas corpus
85
Habermas, Jürgen
105, 159–61
Hacking, Ian
120
Halifax, George Savile, marquess of
92
Hall, Lesley
170
Hall, Marie
117
Hall, Rupert
103
Halliwell, James
15, 94–5, 127
Hankins, Thomas
143
Hannaway, Owen
114
Hardy, Thomas
25, 129
Hargraves, Orin
133
Harrington, James
45
Harris, John
38, 39, 70, 72, 75, 79, 114–15
Harris, Tim
81–3
Harrison, Robert William F.
104
Harvey, William
121
Harwood, John T.
104
Hawkesworth, John
158
Hawkins, John
70
Hay, Douglas
8
Haywood, Eliza
66, 138–40, 175–76
Head, Richard
16
Heal, Felicity
55, 134
Heilbron, J. L.
36
Henry, John
40
Herder, Johann Gottfried von
6
Hevelius, Johannes
103
Hill, Christopher
81, 147
Hitchcock, Tim
48, 82, 170
Hitchings, Henry
13, 91, 127
Hobbes, Thomas
51
Hobsbawm, Eric
18, 88
Hogarth, William
28, 83, 138, 175
Hooke, Robert
61, 102–3, 105, 109, 112, 116
Hooker, Richard
75
Hopcroft, Rosemary L.
29
Hoppit, Julian
49, 82, 85, 130
Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
134
Houghton, John
60
Howard, James
65
Hoyle, Edmond
57
Hughes, Geoffrey
1, 89
Hume, David
4, 10, 59, 65, 153, 161–64, 175
Hume, Robert
65
Hunt, Lynn
7, 155, 157–59, 170
Hunter, Michael
114, 117
Hutcheson, Francis
123
Hutton, James
, 166
Hutton, Ronald
21
Huygens, Constantijn
120
Iamartino, Giovanni
17, 70
Israel, Jonathan
3, 36, 39, 44, 45, 50, 68, 80, 99, 155–56, 160, 165, 168, 170
Jacob, Margaret
100
James II
81, 85, 90
Japanese (the language)
118
Jardine, Lisa
91
Jefferson, Thomas
78
Jenkinson, Matthew
30
Johnson, Mark
111
Johnson, Samuel
3, 13–4, 107, 141, 158, 178
Dictionary
72–9, 85, 96–7, 102, 115–6, 127, 129, 136, 164
Lives of the Poets
70
Rambler, The
65, 112–13
Rasselas
169
Jonson, Ben
134–5
Journal des scavans
105
Joyce, James
129
Juvenal, Decimus Junius
107
Kacirk, Jeffrey
15, 24, 179
Kames, Henry Home, Lord
153
Kant, Immanuel
157, 159, 168
Kastovsky, Dieter
5, 6
Keeble, N. H.
54
Keller, Helen
149
Kerridge, Eric
20, 31, 32, 180
Kersey, John
3, 16, 17, 39, 76, 85
Kieckhefer, Richard
38, 40
Kim, Mi Gyung
113
King, Gregory
18
Kircher, Athanasius
123
Kishlansky, Mark
85, 130
Knights, Mark
85
Knott, Sarah
158, 165
Kohlberg, Lawrence
157
Koyré, Alexandre
98
Kramnick, Isaac
155–56, 170
Kula, Witold
97–8
Lakoff, George
Langbein, John
90–1
Langford, Paul
50, 86–7, 104, 172
Laslett, Peter
24, 133
Lass, Roger
90, 106
La Varenne, François Pierre
27, 56
Lavoisier, Antoine
99, 124, 142
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, baron von
120
Le Clerc, Jean
168
Leeuwenhook, Antony van
105, 115
Leith, Dick
73
Lemery’s Universal Pharmacopoeia
115
Levellers
81–2
Levine, David
131–32
Levy, Leonard
82–3
Lewis, C. S.
117
Lewis, Rhodri
105–6, 108, 110
Lewowicz, Lucia
143
Licensing Act (1695), its lapse
57, 91, 159–60
Linnaeus, Carolus
71, 165, 167
Lilti, Antoine
62
Lipking, Lawrence
70
Littré, Paul-Emile
66, 130
Livy, Titus
107
Locke, John
6, 35, 87, 103, 111
Essay
74, 99, 121
Two Treatises
81, 85
On identity
155
On language
119, 124
On metaphor
110
On probability
120
On wit
51
Louis XIV
82
Lovejoy, Arthur
5, 68
Lovelace, Richard
52
Lower, Richard
103
Lowth, Robert
4, 72–3
Lucy, John
6
Luddites
88
Lynch, Jack
73
Lyons, John
46, 109–10
Macfarlane, Robert
14
Mack, Maynard
135
Mackenzie, Fraser
65
Mackenzie, Henry
Maitland, Frederic William
70
Malcolmson, Robert
22, 134
Malpighi, Marcello
105
Marchand, Leslie
139
Marks, Jonathan
, 167
Martin, Benjamin
72
Mascuch, Michael
155
Massialot, François
28
Maxwell, James Clerk
114
McKean, Erin
15
McKendrick, Neil
58–9, 66, 71, 87
McIntosh, Carey
107, 111
McKeon, Michael
55, 90
Melton, James
160
Mendelson, Sara
26, 179
Mennell, Stephen
27, 56
Meriton, George
36
Merton, Robert
104
Metaphor
6–7, 110
Metcalf, Allan
145
Michael, Ian
72
Middle class
60–1, 86
Millar, John
153
Miller, D. Gary
44, 92, 145
Miller, John
82
Milroy, James
73–4
Milroy, Lesley
74
Milton, John
11, 35, 82, 110
Mirabellio, Domenico Nano, Polyanthea
72
Moelwyn-Hughes, E. A.
117
Monmouth rebellion
90
Montagu, Elizabeth
141, 178
Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley
62, 140, 175
Montesquieu, Charles Louis de Secondat, baron de
36, 169
More, Hannah
138–39, 158
Morrice, Roger, The Entering Book
85
Mortimer, John Hamilton
138, 176
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
155
Müller, Jan-Werner
12
Mui, Hoh-Cheung and Lorna H.
58
Mugglestone, Lynda
13, 127–8
Muldrew, Craig
33
Munck, Thomas
153, 160
Mundus Muliebris … with the Fop Dictionary
65
Murphy, M. Lynne
46
Murray, James
73–4, 127–8
Mydorge, Claude
122
Nabokov, Vladimir
5
Nandé, Gabriel
71
Navaho (the language)
6
Neeson, J. M.
32, 54
Nenner, Howard
85
Nevalainen, Terttu
11, 56, 106
New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature, The
105
Newbery, John
22
Newcastle
10
Newman, William R.
113
Newton, Isaac
73, 77, 99, 101, 103, 113, 116–17, 121, 141
Nouvelles de la Republique des Lettres
105
Noyes, Gertrude
17, 72
Obelkevich, James
35
O’Brien, Karen
159, 165
OED
2, 10, 12–13, 15, 17, 64, 167–68
Ogilby, John
30
Ogg, David
29, 41
Oldbaileyonline.org
2, 141, 177–78, 186
Oldenburg, Henry
104
Ortony, Andrew
6, 111
Osselton, Noel
17, 72, 126–7
Outram, Dorinda
68, 100, 170
Overton, Mark
18, 20, 24, 28–32, 126, 137, 179
Pagden, Anthony
68, 82, 169
Paine, Tom
91, 168
Palmer, R. R.
83
Paracelsus, Philippus Aureolus
38, 114
Payne, D. L.
6
Pennant, Thomas,
166
Pepys, Samuel
24, 27, 48, 51, 54, 60, 104, 140
Perkin, Harold
29
Pettit, Philip A.
34
Petty, William
77, 102, 163–64
Phillips, Edward
16, 17, 30, 39, 69, 76, 79
Philosophical Transactions [of the Royal Society]
103–4
Pincus, Steve
87
Pinker, Steven
44
Pitt, William, 1st earl of Chatham
83, 139, 176
Pliny
130
Plot, Robert
103
Plumb, J. H.
57, 70, 74
Pocock, J. G. A.
82–5, 147, 153, 156, 161, 163, 168, 171–2
Pope, Alexander
34, 46, 47, 52, 87, 92, 107, 134, 140, 152, 161, 163, 167–68, 177
Pope, Walter
103
Porphyry
109
Porter, Roy
4, 7, 45, 74, 91, 100, 155, 169–70
Price, Richard
82
Priestley, Joseph
2, 115
Principe, Lawrence M.
38, 103, 117
Prynne, William
160
Public Sphere
8, 24, 61, 105, 159–61, 171
Putney Debates
81
Puttenham, George
73
Quine, Willard Van Orman
125
Quintilian, Marcus Fabius
107, 148
Quirk, Randolph
120
Rabelais, François
22
Rainborough, Colonel
81
Raleigh, Walter
117
Randall, Adrian
29, 88, 93
Rasmussen, Dennis
153, 163, 165, 171
Rastell, John
34
Ray, John
16, 21, 27, 35, 36, 71, 74, 77, 95, 103
Raynal, Guillaume Thomas François, Abbé
80
Read, Allen Walker
17
Reay, Barry
18, 20
Reid, Thomas
123
Reynolds, Joshua
70
Rhetoric, classical
107, 147
Rich, Adrienne
170
Richardson, Samuel
52, 54, 66, 155, 157, 159, 175
Richter, Melvin
12, 147
Rissanen, Matti
72, 106
Robbins, Caroline
82–3
Robertson, John
61, 153, 155, 159, 161, 169
Roche, Daniel
70
Roberts, Lissa
143
Rogers, Nicholas
8
Romaine, Susan
17
Room, Adrian
77
Roseveare, Henry
87–8
Rossi, Paolo
40
Rousseau, George
117
Rousseau, Jean Jacques
83, 155, 159
Royal Society
51, 61, 100–8
Rudé, George
18, 29
Rumford, Benjamin Thompson, Count
28
Rybcsynski, Witold
54
Sacks, Oliver
147
Salmon, Vivian
110
Sandwich, John Montagu, 4th earl of
46
Sapir, Edward
43, 111, 117–18
Sapiro, Virginia
158
Schäfer, Jurgen
34, 127
Schlereth, Thomas
170
Schott, Robin May
156
Scott, Sir Walter
20
Scrutton, Thomas
31
Searle, C. E.
31
Sedley, Sir Charles
51
Serjeantson, Mary
144
Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, earl of
123
Shakespeare, William
4, 35, 36, 49, 51, 106, 135, 172
Shapin, Steven
63, 101, 121
Shapiro, Barbara
120
Shapiro, Rebecca
17, 72
Sher, Richard
153, 166, 172
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley
176
Sheridan, Thomas
95, 97
Shoemaker, Robert
48, 82
Simpson, John A.
38, 129
Simon, Richard
168
Siskin, Clifford
82
Skeat, W. W.
127
Skinner, Quentin
11, 12, 146–47, 156
Sloane, Sir Hans
103
Smedley, Jonathan
175
Smith, Adam
4, 29, 50, 65, 87–8, 123, 153, 161, 163–64
Smith, Olivia
73
Smith, Woodruff
66
Smollett, Tobias
176
Sociolinguistics
7
Sorensen, Janet
73
Spectator, The
25, 51–2, 61, 66, 160, 172
Spinoza, Baruch
80, 155
Sprat, Bishop Thomas
103–4, 106, 110–11
Spufford, Margaret
14, 126
Stallybrass, Peter
73
Starnes, DeWitt
17, 72
Starobinsky, Jean
44, 45, 164
Starr, Paul
131
Staves, Susan
25, 49
Steele, Richard
52
Stein, Gabriele
17
Stereotypes
6–7, 43, 47, 50, 53, 143, 158
Sterne, Laurence
65–6
Stone, Lawrence
49, 52, 88, 156, 159, 171
Stout, William
58
Strang, Barbara
74
Sundby, Bertil
72
Sumillera, Rocio
110
Sutherland, J. R.
168
Sweet, Rosemary
87, 181
Swift, Jonathan
47, 60, 64, 82–3, 92, 107, 110–11, 140, 157, 161, 175
Tacitus, Cornelius
107
Tatler, The
61, 160
Taylor, Barbara
157–58, 165
Taylor, Charles
43, 155
Teich, Mikulas
155
Temple, Sir William
49
Thirsk, Joan
18, 20, 27, 28, 29, 33
Thomas, Keith
36, 37, 57, 71, 137, 165, 179
Thompson, E. P.
24, 26, 33, 81, 179
Thomson, James
63, 83
Thomson, J. J.
113
Tilley, Morris Palmer
36, 179
Tillyard, E. M. W.
117
Traugott, Elizabeth Closs
11, 140, 148
Turing, Alan
108
Tzeltal (the language)
6
Underdown, David
26, 50
Urban Dictionary
130
Urquhart, Thomas
22
Valenza, Robin
78
Valenze, Deborah
78, 87
Venturi, Franco
156
Versailles
33, 54, 56
Vickers, Brian
111
Vickery, Amanda
24, 47, 58
Vigarello, Georges
54
Voltaire, François Marie Arouet de
62, 169
Voth, Hans-Joachim
71
Wahrman, Dror
158
Waller, Edmund
103
Wallis, John
61, 103–4
Wallis, Thomas
23
Walker, John
165–66
Walpole, Horace
63, 70, 136, 139–40
Walpole, Robert
85
Ward, Bishop Seth
103, 109
Warner, William
82
Warton, Thomas
70
Watson, Col. Sir C. M.
93–4
Watts, Richard
73
Weatherill, Laura
86–7
Webster, Charles
103, 117
Webster, Noah
97
Webster’s First New Intergalactic Wickidary of the English Language
130
Wedgwood, Josiah
58, 71, 172
Weinbrot, Howard
75–6
Westfall, Richard S.
77, 108, 117, 141
Weston, Richard
57
Whiston, William
100
White, Gilbert
54
Wiener, Martin
130
Wierzbicka, Anna
5, 89, 91–3, 101, 108, 117–24
Wikipedia
14, 28, 101, 149
Wilkes, John
83
Wilkins, Bishop John
40, 41, 103, 109–11, 120
William III
82
Williams, Raymond
11, 44, 152
Williamson, George
111
Willughby, Francis
109
Wimsatt, William K.
113
Wittgenstein, Ludwig
43
Wollstonecraft, Mary
82, 156–8
Wood, Anthony
54
Woodward [in Johnson’s Dictionary s.v. salt]
114
Women
15, 18, 24, 47, 150, 171
Dangerous
130, 142
Erotic relations
3, 47–8
“Gallantry” towards
47, 67
Oppression of
14, 25, 41, 49–50, 142
Rights of
82, 128
Sexism built into words
3, 48, 130, 157
Wordnik
130
Words
5–6, 16.
English
.
Address forms
48, 50, 53
Coinages
16, 181
French
8, 13, 47, 55–6, 61–5, 143–44
Keywords
1, 10–11, 120, 147–48, 152–73
Scientific
4, 112–17, 119
Worlidge, John
15, 18, 23
Wren, Sir Christopher
103
Wright, Elizabeth
94, 179–80
Wright, Joseph
15, 17, 20, 22, 130, 132, 180
Wright, Laura
74
Wrightson, Keith
21, 23, 30–33, 41, 86, 131
Wrigley, E. A.
87
Yates, Frances
36
Yeo, Richard
72–3
Young, B. W.
169
Zedler, Johann Heinrich
72