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Sir James Murray

noun

Scottish philologist and the lexicographer who shaped the Oxford English Dictionary (1837-1915). Synonyms: James Augustus Henry Murray, James Augustus Murray, James Murray, Murray, Sir James Augustus Henry Murray, Sir James Augustus Murray.

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... have been known somewhat earlier. The earliest mention of them is dated about 1670. Sir James Murray, in the great Oxford Dictionary, gives the following interesting extract from an unpublished MS. relating to India, written between 1669 and 1679: "The Poore Sort of Inhabitants vizt. yet Gentues, Mallabars, &c., Smoke theire Tobacco after a very meane, but I judge Original ...

— The Social History of Smoking • G. L. Apperson

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