While the Oxford English Dictionary credits Jefferson as the first known user of these words, searches in our Modern English Collection, English Poetry Database, and American Poetry Database have produced the following examples of earlier uses. For each usage that came before or around the same time as Jefferson's, we have included author, title, and a short excerpt in which the word appears. The first entry under each word is taken directly from the OED.
deep-drawn
OED Entry:
1813 T. Jefferson Writ. (1830) IV. 224 --
They can never suppress the deep-drawn sigh.
Earlier Occurrences from the E-Text Collection (In the first three examples, there is no hyphen between deep and drawn, but in the last excerpt, from the works of Charles Brockden Brown, the word is hyphenated.):
1785 Timothy Dwight The conquest of Canäan (1785) --
299: Skill'd in the science of the human soul,
300: Th' experienc'd Chief beheld her passions roll,
301: Smil'd at th' expressive language of her eye,
302: The dancing bosom, and the deep drawn sigh.
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1792 Francis Hopkinson, Esq. The miscellaneous essays and occasional writings (1792): Disappointed Love: Recitative --
9: Her bosom heav'd with many a deep drawn sigh,
10: And the big tear stood trembling in her eye:
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1793 Francis Hopkinson, Esq. Landmark Anthologies: American poems (1793): An Oration --
43: All naked lay -- ev'n when our chieftain stood
44: Like a high priest, prepar'd for shedding blood;
45: Prepar'd, with wondrous skill, to cut or slash
46: The gentle sliver or the deep drawn gash;
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1798 Charles Brockden Brown Wieland; or the Transformation. An American Tale. (1798) 253 --
Instead of this I heard deep-drawn sighs, and occasionally an half-expressed and mournful ejaculation.
dischargeable
OED Entry:
1781 T. Jefferson Lett. Writ. 1893 II. 514 --
And we will give you moreover 150 lbs. of Tobacco a Day each dischargeable in current money at the rate affixed by the grand Jury.
Earlier Occurrence from the E-Text Collection:
1640 Thomas Hobbes The elements of law (1640) 79 --
And generally all covenants are dischargeable by the covenantee, to whose benefit, and by whose right, he that maketh the covenant is obliged.
disrupture
OED Entry:
1785 Jefferson Notes Virginia (1787) 27 --
The evident marks of their disrupture and avulsion from their beds by the most powerful agents of nature, corroborate the impression.
Earlier Occurrence from the E-Text Collection:
1764 James Grainger The Sugar-Cane (1764), Book I --
400: Withstand the dread convulsion? Their dear homes,
401: (Which shaking, tottering, crashing, bursting, fall,)
402: The boldest fly; and, on the open plain
403: Appal'd, in agony the moment wait,
404: When, with disrupture vast, the waving earth
405: Shall whelm them in her sea-disgorging womb.
electioneer
OED Entry:
1789 T. Jefferson Writ. (1859) II. 580 --
All the world here is occupied in electioneering, in choosing or being chosen.
Earlier Occurrences from the E-Text Collection (In the 1789 quote Jefferson uses "electioneering" as a gerund, but in the following instances, it is used as a noun or an adjective):
1743 Samuel Wesley, the younger Poems on Several Occasions(1743): The Electioneer --
The Electioneer
1: There once liv'd in Repute a substantial Free-holder,
2: No Briton on Earth could be braver or bolder,
3: A Party-man stanch and resolv'd, tho' the Story
4: Does not call him directly a Whig or a Tory.
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1763 Richard Owen Cambridge, Esq. Miscellanies and Collections: A Collection of Poems (1763): The Fable of Jotham: To the Borough-Hunters --
59: ``What have merchants to do from their business to ramble!
60: ``Your electioneer-errant should still be a bramble.''
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1767 Evan Lloyd Conversation (1767) --
445: This Patriot Page condemns the venal Bribe,
446: And Probus d------ns th' electioneering Tribe;
inexactitude
OED Entry:
1786 T. Jefferson Writ. (1859) II. 48 --
Further enquiry..has satisfied me of the inexactitude of this information.
Possible Earlier Occurrence from the E-Text Collection:
17-- Benjamin Franklin The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (1771-1788) 102 --
In 1737, Colonel Spotswood, late governor of Virginia, and then postmaster-general, being dissatisfied with the conduct of his deputy at Philadelphia, respecting some negligence in rendering, and inexactitude of his accounts, took from him the commission and offered it to me.
patricidal
OED Entry:
1821 Jefferson Autobiog. Wks. 1859 I. 73 --
The States General, indignant at this patricidal conduct, applied to France for aid.
Earlier Occurrence from the E-Text Collection:
1804 David Humphreys The miscellaneous works (1804): A Poem on the Death of General Washington --
294: Or toil inglorious on a foreign shore.
295: In flank the Chasseur troops less gay were seen,
296: And false Columbians cloath'd like them in green:
297: Ingrates! to play a patricidal part,
298: And strive to stab their country to the heart!
unlocated
OED Entry:
1776 Jefferson Writ. (ed. Ford) II. 80 --
The idea of Congress selling out unlocated lands has been sometimes dropped.
Earlier or Simultaneous Occurrence from the E-Text Collection:
1776 Thomas Paine Common Sense (1776) 53 --
The difference between Pennsylvania and Connecticut, respecting some unlocated lands, shews the insignificance of a B -- sh government, and fully proves, that nothing but Continental authority can regulate Continental matters.