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Worcester was born at Bedford on August 24, 1784. He worked on a farm in his youth.
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Worcester was born at Bedford on August 24, 1784. He worked on a farm in his youth.
He was educated at Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachussets, and at Yale College, obtaining his B. A. in 1811.
He then taught in Salem, Massachussets, until 1816, and after a short residence at Andover settled at Cambridge in 1819.
His first published work, A Geographical Dictionary, or Universal Gazetteer, Ancient and Modern, appeared in 1817; it was followed by a series of valuable textbooks on geography and history, and, in 1828, by an edition of Dr. Samuel Johnson's English Dictionary combined with John Walker's Critical Pronouncing Dictionary.
Next Worcester prepared an abridgment (printed in 1830) of the large 1828 dictionary of Noah Webster. His own first fully independent lexicographical work, the Comprehensive Pronouncing and Explanatory Dictionary of the English Language (1830), was unjustly termed plagiaristic by Webster, and with this accusation began the long and celebrated "War of the Dictionaries. " The work of the innovative and consciously American Webster attained mass circulation, while Worcester's conservative closeness to British usage won the admiration of the fastidious, especially in the Boston cultural area.
In 1846 Worcester published A Universal and Critical Dictionary of the English Language. Enlarged editions of the Comprehensive appeared in 1847, 1849, and 1855.
His greatest work, the quarto Dictionary of the English Language (1860), distinguished for its excellent treatment of synonyms, for the refinement of taste which it embodied, and for being the first American dictionary to include illustrations, was deservedly well received; ultimately, however, it lost the field to the 1864 Webster's Unabridged. Worcester was revising his last work at the time of his death
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