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an English author, the brother of Edward Phillips, and a nephew of John Milton. He appears to have acted as unofficial secretary to Milton, but, unable to obtain regular political employment, and (like his brother) chafing against the discipline he was under, he published in 1655, a bitter attack on Puritanism titled a Satyr against Hypocrites (1655). In 1656, he was summoned before the privy council for his share in a book of licentious poems, Sportive Wit, which was suppressed by the authorities, but almost immediately replaced by a similar collection, Wit and Drollery.
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Lapidable: Worthy of being stoned. In 17th and 18th century dictionaries. John Phillips (1706), however, defined lapi...
Thos: A beast of prey, of the dog family, named in Greek and Latin writers. Plural, thoes. Mentioned in 17th to 1...
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