Cooper’s Dictionary | dictionary by Cooper | Britannica (original) (raw)

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discussed in biography

• In Thomas Cooper
  …Thesaurus, which became known as Cooper’s Dictionary. Cooper, who had been ordained about 1559, was made dean of Christ Church, Oxford, in 1567. Two years later he became dean of Gloucester, in 1571 bishop of Lincoln, and in 1584 bishop of Winchester. Cooper defended the practice and precept of the…
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history of dictionaries

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  In dictionary: From Classical times to 1604
  …new work based upon it—Thesaurus Linguae Romanae et Britannicae (“Thesaurus of the Roman Tongue and the British”). A hundred years later John Aubrey, in Brief Lives, recorded Cooper’s misfortune while compiling it:
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