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César-Pierre Richelet (1626–1698) was a French lexicographer and grammarian. He is best known for his 1680 work, the *Dictionnaire françois*, which was the first monolingual French dictionary. The dictionary aimed to establish standard French vocabulary and included definitions, usage examples, and...

Gilles Ménage was a 17th-century French scholar, writer, and lexicographer known for research into the origins of French and other European languages. His Origines de la langue française, first published in 1650, examined French vocabulary through comparisons with Latin, Greek, Italian, and regional...

Thomas Blount (1618–1679) was an English lawyer and lexicographer whose Glossographia, first published in 1656, defined approximately 11,000 difficult or foreign words then entering English. It was one of the earliest English dictionaries to cite named authorities and etymological sources. Glossogra...

Elisha Coles was a seventeenth-century English lexicographer and stenographer. His An English Dictionary, published in 1676, explained difficult terms used in fields including divinity, husbandry, physic, and other arts and sciences. The dictionary is also associated with regional English vocabulary...

Stephen Skinner was an English scholar and lexicographer associated with the study of word origins. His Etymologicon Linguae Anglicanae, published in 1671, was an early work devoted to tracing the etymology of English words and is part of the history of English dictionary making. Skinner is chiefly...