An English Expositor

compilation by Bullokar

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An English Expositor was a dictionary compiled by John Bullokar, first entered into the Stationers' Register in 1610 and printed six years later. This work is noted for introducing archaisms, words that were no longer in common use, and marking them with a star. The dictionary went through 14 editions, with the last one published in 1731. An "expositor" is defined as a person who explains or comments on something.1

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…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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