deeden?

[Joel S. Berson]

The snippets from _The Gleaner: A Miscellaneous Production_ are
suggestive.  (It's in Early American Imprints, but I don't have
access from home.)  Both a damned pope and an "actual" pope (the real
one, able to see his effigy) fit the context; I'll probably suggest
both and leave it to the OED experts to choose.  Either way, it will
be an antedating, either of the OED or of Google Books.

In the same source, I have a "teeny" (actually "teney") = tiny, antedates 1825.

Joel

At 2/19/2008 10:41 PM, Douglas G. Wilson wrote:
>>In a 1768 broadside poem on Pope's Day, "he" being the (effigy of the) pope:
>>
>>If that his deeden Self could see Himself so turn'd to Fun: In Rage
>>He'd tear out his Pope's Eyes, and scratch his Rev'rend bum.
>>
>>Is "deeden" a ppl. adj. of dee (v) = damned?  OED2 sense b.
>
>I don't know, but here's my alternative speculation.
>
>Maybe "deeden" is equivalent to "deedy" = "actual" (sense 2 in my
>OED). This would fit the poem, I think. Google Books provides a
>single contemptible null-entry which may be pertinent (search
>"deeden-name" or "deeden-lady").
>
>-- Doug Wilson
>
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