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Lexicographist

Lexˊi-cog′ra-phist

(lĕksˊĭ-kŏg′rȧ-fĭst)
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Noun.
A lexicographer.
[R.]
Southey.

Definition 2024


lexicographist

lexicographist

English

Noun

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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