Lexicographist

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A student specialising in the discipline of lexicography; lexicographer. archaic

    "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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"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."

Etymology

From lexicography + -ist.

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