dictionaristn.
/ˈdɪkʃn̩(ə)rɪst/, /ˈdɪkʃən(ə)rɪst/, U.S. /ˈdɪkʃənərəst/ The compiler of a dictionary; a lexicographer.
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dictionary-maker1567
dictionarist1617
lexicographer1658
word-catcher1659
dictionary writer1742
dictionarian1797
lexicographista1843
1617 S. Collins Epphata to F. T. ii. vi. 238 One of the Dictionarists aforenamed [sc. Budaeus, Crispinus] quotes the place.
1675 W. Collins Missa Triumphans viii. 427 Certainly the Mounsieur would make a better dictionarist, then Philosopher or divine, for he is mighty copious in expounding of words as you see.
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Pref. p. xxiii We are far from the Views of some Dictionarists, who think it incumbent on 'em to demonstrate every thing that is capable thereof.
1845 G.M. Gibson in Eutropii Historiae Romanae Breviarii Vocab. 227 The verb to pink, to pierce with holes, to stab, has no connection with this pink, though most Dictionarists make it to have.
1927 A. S. W. Rosenbach Books & Bidders vi. 206 Even Noah Webster, that staid dictionarist, wrote The Pirates, A Tale for Youth.
2000 Jerusalem Post (Nexis) 7 Apr. The 18th century writer and dictionarist Samuel Johnson..defined a lexicographer as ‘a harmless drudge’.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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