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Thomas Cooper and his Thesaurus The first rhyming dictionary First purely English dictionary Kersey's New English Dictionary Samuel Johnson's. their usefulness by referring to things , however , it is diffi- cult to construct a ...
Thomas Cooper and his Thesaurus The first rhyming dictionary First purely English dictionary Kersey's New English Dictionary Samuel Johnson's. their usefulness by referring to things , however , it is diffi- cult to construct a ...
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Thesaurus Linguae Latinae Period dictio- naries for English Earliest English etymologi- cal dictionary Dictio- naries of usage Bilingual dictio- naries Problems in selecting. were collected in a " casebook " entitled Dictionaries and ...
Thesaurus Linguae Latinae Period dictio- naries for English Earliest English etymologi- cal dictionary Dictio- naries of usage Bilingual dictio- naries Problems in selecting. were collected in a " casebook " entitled Dictionaries and ...
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... English 1964 English 1813 English 1819 English 1876 English 1870 English 1754 English 1889 English 1887 English 1958 English 1881 English 1865 English 1878 English 1769 English 1837 English 1850 English 1850 English 1833 English 1831 ...
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