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Sometimes Johnson simply gives up: drayplough (‘A plough of a particular kind’), sonata (‘A tune’), surprise sense 2 (‘A dish, I suppose, which has nothing in it’).
— Mar 30, 2022 06:06PM
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...we laugh at the elixir that promises to prolong life to a thousand years; and with equal justice may the lexicographer be derided, who being able to produce no example of a nation that has preserved their words and phrases from mutability, shall imagine that his dictionary can embalm his language, and secure it from corruption and decay…
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n. 2 Only two of his personal definitions seem to have caused Johnson any trouble... [2] And Johnson’s view of a pension as ‘pay given to a state hireling for treason to his country’ was the source of much merriment, some quite vindictive, when he accepted just such a pension (of £300) from the king in 1762.
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'By powerful charmes of gold and silver led,Modern day Lombards: https://twitter.com/ByDonkeys/status/...
The Lombard bankers and the change to waste.' —Dryden
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Mar 30, 2022 06:13PM
And sometimes he just didn’t know how to stop. There is no space to include in this anthology the seriously over-quoted entries, such as the 27 quotations attached to for in the sense of ‘because of’, the 38 quotations for the adverbial use of new, or the 55 quotations for the adverbial use of ill.
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