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introduction of archaisms

  • Nathan Bailey's definition of “oats”
    In dictionary: From 1604 to 1828

    …next dictionary, by John Bullokar, An English Expositor, is first heard of on May 25, 1610, when it was entered in the Stationers’ Register (which established the printer’s right to it), but it was not printed until six years later. Bullokar introduced many archaisms, marked with a star (“only used…

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