Cawdrey
Britishnoun
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The first known dictionary, written in 1604 by Robert Cawdrey, had entries for biliment and perfidious, but not for cat or door.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 19, 2018
Cawdrey thought we needed just the hard words.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 19, 2018
In 1604, a clergyman named Robert Cawdrey attempted a stopgap solution: a slender book entitled A Table Alphabeticall.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 23, 2018
The first English alphabetical dictionary was written by English schoolteacher Robert Cawdrey in 1604, when Shakespeare was still writing plays.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 15, 2012
The title-page is gone; but in an old hand on the cover it is stated to have been written by a certain "Cawdrey," and to have been printed in 1609, where I cannot discover.
From Notes and Queries, Number 208, October 22, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc by Bell, George
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