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NATHAN BAILEY

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 217 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BAILEY  or NATHANIEL (d . 1742), See also:English philologist and lexicographer . He compiled a Dictionarium Britannicum: a more compleat universal etymological English See also:dictionary than any extant, bearing the date 1730, but supposed to have been published in 1721 . This was a See also:great improvement on all previous attempts, and formed the basis of Dr See also:Johnson's great See also:work . See also:Bailey, who was a Seventh-See also:day Baptist (admitted 1691), had a school at See also:Stepney, near See also:London, and was the author of Dictionarium Domesticum and several other educational See also:works . He died on the 27th of See also:June 1742 .

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