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Thomas Blount (1618–1679) was an English antiquary and lexicographer. Living in seventeenth-century England, he devoted himself to collecting old books, examining names and things, and compiling vocabulary, and his scholarship bore a distinct antiquarian stamp, seeking the origins of words and customs in historical documents and material remains. His representative work, Glossographia, is a dictionary of hard words explained in English, gathering numerous rare terms from law, religion, science and technology, and daily life, often with etymological notes, and it supplied useful material for later English lexicography. The collection also includes his work Boscobel, which recounts Charles II's escape after the Battle of Worcester and has a memoiristic, documentary character. Public information on his family, education and career is limited, and existing accounts rest mainly on his writings themselves.

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