Definition of "lexicographist" in English

noun

1. (chiefly archaic) A student specialising in the discipline of lexicography; lexicographer.

   • 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.