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NATHAN BAILEY

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NATHAN

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

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