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Noah Webster
Noah Webster
American lexicographer
Johann August Eberhard
German philosopher and theologian
William Safire
William Safire
American journalist
Jean-Baptiste de La Curne de Sainte-Palaye
French medievalist and lexicographer
Paul Robert
French lexicographer
William Salesbury
Welsh lexicographer
Nonius Marcellus
Latin grammarian and lexicographer
Ambrogio Calepino
Italian lexicographer