Which English clergyman compiled the first comprehensive English-language dictionary of hard words, 'Table Alphabeticall', in 1604?

Long before Samuel Johnson's famous dictionary of 1755, a modest schoolmaster produced what is generally regarded as the first monolingual English dictionary. It contained around 2,500 'hard usuall English wordes' aimed at readers, especially women, who lacked a classical education.

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