Antedating of "Penis"

Beverly Flanigan flanigan at OHIOU.EDU
Fri Aug 9 16:36:15 UTC 2002


At 10:48 PM 8/8/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>Here's one I never thought I'd antedate, another testament to the efficacy
>of JSTOR for antedating scientific vocabulary (I'm not making this one
>up):
>
>
>penis (OED 1676)
>
>1668 _Philosophical Transactions_ III. 751  When he examins the _Penis_,
>he taketh notice.
"Taketh notice" of what?  (Ouch.)



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