[Ads-l] Antedating of "Malapropism"

[James Eric Lawson]

I suppose these might be equidatings of Fred Shapiro's 1826 find:

Diary of a Constant Reader
Type: Journal Article
Author: John Taylor
Author: John Scott
URL: 
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433081672085&view=1up&seq=94&q1=malapropism
Volume: 4
Issue: January 1826
Pages: 82
Publication: The London magazine.
Date: 1826 Jan
Place: London
Publisher: Hunt and Clarke
Accessed: 1/11/2023, 10:03:35 PM
Archive: HathiTrust

     Extract: “A close bout of manual espionage!” What in the name of
     refinement does the accomplished critic mean? Lady Morgan, in
     her happiest moments of French, never surpassed this
     malapropism.

     Term: malapropism

Mathews At Home
Type: Journal Article
Author: John Taylor
Author: John Scott
URL: 
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015033845564&view=1up&seq=459&q1=malapropisms
Volume: 4
Issue: April, 1826
Pages: 558
Date: 1826 Apr
Extra:
Place: London
Publisher: Printed for Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy etc..
Accessed: 1/11/2023, 9:29:17 PM
Archive: HathiTrust

     Extract: Thus, in the personation of one Giblets, an ignorant
     and self-complacent cit, an electioneering speech is put into
     his mouth, which is nothing but a continued series of
     Malapropisms, to the outrage of all nature and probability.

     Term: malapropism


On 1/11/23 11:14, James Eric Lawson wrote:
> "...far-fetched Malapropism [sc. cocularity]...subsequently killed, as 
> boatswain of a line-of-battle ship."
> 
> https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433008489191&view=1up&seq=145&q1=far-fetched
> 
> On 1/11/23 10:53, Shapiro, Fred wrote:
>> malapropism (OED 1830)
>>
>> 1826 Naval Sketch-Book (2nd ed.) 1:146 (Google Books)  This is no 
>> far-fetched Malapropism; the man who made use of this expression was 
>> subsequently killed.
>>
>> Fred Shapiro
>>
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James Eric Lawson

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