Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Nathan Bailey (d. 1742) was an English philologist and lexicographer. He compiled a Dictionarium Britannicum: a more complete universal etymological English dictionary than any extant, bearing the date 1730, but supposed to have been published in 1721. This was a great improvement on all previous attempts, and formed the basis of Dr Johnson's great work. Bailey, who was a Seventh Day Baptist (admitted 1691), had a school at Stepney, and was the author of Dictionarium Domesticum and several other educational works. He died on June 27 1742. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.