COTGRAVE, RANDLE (d. 1634?), English lexicographer, of a Cheshire family, was educated at Cambridge, entering St. John's college in 1587. He became secretary to Lord Burghley, and in 161i published the first French-English dictionary (I6i 1) a work which has great historical value for the study of both languages. He was still alive in 1632, when he issued the 2nd ed.
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