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Publisherconsortium. Publication date. April 1. 75. 5Published on 1. April 1. 75. 5 and written by Samuel Johnson, A Dictionary of the English Language, sometimes published as Johnsons Dictionary, is among the most influential dictionaries in the history of the English language. There was dissatisfaction with the dictionaries of the period, so in June 1. Published on 15 April 1755 and written by Samuel Johnson, A Dictionary of the English Language, sometimes published as Johnsons Dictionary, is among the most. The OED is the definitive record of the English language, featuring 600,000 words, 3 million quotations, and over 1,000 years of English. English To English Dictionary Full Version' title='English To English Dictionary Full Version' />English Bible History Discover the fascinating history of how we got the Bible in the English language, from Wycliffe, Tyndale, Luther, to King Henry VIII and King James. Free online dictionaries Spanish, French, Italian, German and more. Conjugations, audio pronunciations and forums for your questions. The most popular dictionary and thesaurus for learners of English. Meanings and definitions of words with pronunciations and translations. London booksellers contracted Johnson to write a dictionary for the sum of 1,5. Johnson took seven years to complete the work, although he had claimed he could finish it in three. Remarkably, he did so single handedly, with only clerical assistance to copy out the illustrative quotations that he had marked in books. Johnson produced several revised editions during his life. Until the completion of the Oxford English Dictionary 1. Johnsons was viewed as the pre eminent English dictionary. According to Walter Jackson Bate, the Dictionary easily ranks as one of the greatest single achievements of scholarship, and probably the greatest ever performed by one individual who laboured under anything like the disadvantages in a comparable length of time. BackgroundeditIn earlier times, books had been regarded with something approaching veneration, but by the mid eighteenth century this was no longer the case. The rise of literacy among the general public, combined with the technical advances in the mechanics of printing and bookbinding, meant that for the first time, books, texts, maps, pamphlets and newspapers were widely available to the general public at a reasonable cost. Such an explosion of the printed word demanded a set pattern of grammar, definition, and spelling for those words. This could be achieved by means of an authoritative dictionary of the English language. In 1. 74. 6, a consortium of Londons most successful printers, including Robert Dodsley and Thomas Longman none could afford to undertake it alone set out to satisfy and capitalise on this need by the ever increasing reading and writing public. Johnsons dictionary was not the first English dictionary, nor even among the first dozen. Over the previous 1. England, the oldest of these being a Latin English wordbook by Sir Thomas Elyot published in 1. The next to appear was by Richard Mulcaster, a headmaster, in 1. Mulcaster compiled what he termed a generall table of eight thousand words we commonlie use. It were a thing verie praise worthy. English tung. into one dictionary. In 1. ItalianEnglish dictionary by John Florio was published. It was the first English dictionary to use quotations illustrations to give meaning to the word surprisingly, in none of these dictionaries so far were there any actual definitions of words. This was to change, to a small extent, in schoolmaster Robert Cawdreys Table Alphabeticall, published in 1. Though it contained only 2,4. W, X, or Y, this was the first monolingual English dictionary. Several more dictionaries followed in Latin, English, French and Italian. Benjamin Martins Lingua Britannica Reformata 1. Ainsworths. Thesaurus Linguae Latinae 1. In English among others, John Cowells Interpreter, a law dictionary, was published in 1. Edward Phillips The new world of English words came out in 1. Nathan Bailey, though none was as comprehensive in breadth or style as Johnsons. The problem with these dictionaries was that they tended to be little more than poorly organised and poorly researched glossaries of hard words words that were technical, foreign, obscure or antiquated. But perhaps the greatest single fault of these early lexicographers was, as historian Henry Hitchings put it, that they failed to give sufficient sense of the English language as it appeared in use. In that sense Dr. Johnsons dictionary was the first to comprehensively document the English lexicon. Johnsons preparationeditJohnsons dictionary was prepared at 1. Gough Square, London, an eclectic household, between the years of 1. By 1. 74. 7 Johnson had written his Plan of a Dictionary of the English Language, which spelled out his intentions and proposed methodology for preparing his document. He clearly saw benefit in drawing from previous efforts, and saw the process as a parallel to legal precedent possibly influenced by Cowell I shall therefore, since the rules of stile, like those of law, arise from precedents often repeated, collect the testimonies of both sides, and endeavour to discover and promulgate the decrees of custom, who has so long possessed whether by right or by usurpation, the sovereignty of words. Johnsons Plan received the patronage of Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield but not to Johnsons pleasure. Chesterfield did not care about praise, but was instead interested by Johnsons abilities. Seven years after first meeting Johnson to discuss the work, Chesterfield wrote two anonymous essays in The World that recommended the Dictionary. He complained that the English language was lacking structure and argued We must have recourse to the old Roman expedient in times of confusion, and chose a dictator. Upon this principle, I give my vote for Mr Johnson to fill that great and arduous post. However, Johnson did not appreciate the tone of the essay, and he felt that Chesterfield had not made good on his promise to be the works patron. In a letter, Johnson explained his feelings about the matter Seven years, my lord, have now past since I waited in your outward rooms or was repulsed from your door, during which time I have been pushing on my work through difficulties of which it is useless to complain, and have brought it at last to the verge of publication without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour. Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a patron before . Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind but it has been delayed till I am indifferent and cannot enjoy it till I am solitary and cannot impart it till I am known and do not want it. The texteditA Dictionary of the English Language was somewhat large and very expensive. Its pages were 1. The paper was of the finest quality available, the cost of which ran to nearly 1,6. Johnson had been paid to write the book. Johnson himself pronounced the book Vasta mole superbus Proud in its great bulk. No bookseller could possibly hope to print this book without help outside a few special editions of the Bible no book of this heft and size had even been set to type. The title page reads ADICTIONARYof the. ENGLISH LANGUAGE in which. The WORDS are deduced from their ORIGINALS,and. ILLUSTRATED in their DIFFERENT SIGNIFICATIONSby. EXAMPLES from the bet WRITERS. To which are prefixed,A HISTORY of the LANGUAGE,and AN ENGLISH GRAMMAR. By SAMUEL JOHNSON, A. M. In TWO Volumes. VOL. IThe words Samuel Johnson and English Language were printed in red the rest was printed in black. The preface and headings were set in 4. Software Usage Metrics Is Enabled. English type, the textdouble columnedwas set in 3. This first edition of the dictionary contained a 4.