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