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Two and a half centuries ago this year, the first comprehensive
Dictionary
of the English Language was published. The lexicographer (def. “a
writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge”) was Dr. Samuel Johnson,
better known then as an essayist and moralist, and (as is more obvious now
than then) a serious Christian in a deistic, even skeptical age.
Nine years earlier, a bookseller named Robert Dodsley asked the 36-year-old
Johnson about compiling a dictionary. Dodsley considered it a rebuke to national
pride that England lacked anything to equal the great dictionaries of France
and Italy, each the product of teams of academics. At first Johnson declined, ....

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