lexicographist

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Etymology[edit]

lexicography +‎ -ist

Noun[edit]

lexicographist (plural lexicographists)

  1. (chiefly archaic) A student specialising in the discipline of lexicography; lexicographer.
    • 1889, William Gardner Hale The Cum‐Constructions, John Wilson and Son; Chapter VII, page #247:
      Whatever the a priori grammarian might do, the lexicographist, at any rate, ought to have thought it antecedently probably that, here and there, a construction with which a given idea, not expressed by it, was naturally associated, would come in time to be understood and used as expressing that idea.

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