nomenclaturistn.

1809 Edinb. Rev. Oct. 140 His acquaintance with species..can never entitle him to rank higher than as a nomenclaturist.

1853 W. T. Brande Dict. Sci., Lit & Art 227/1 This gas was discovered in 1774 by Scheele, who called it dephlogisticated muriatic acid; the French nomenclaturists afterwards called it oxygenated muriatic acid.

1892 Bot. Gaz. 17 95 It is becoming more and more clear that the nomenclaturists are not to agree with each other, at least until another congress has definitely established a datum line.

1933 Amer. Hist. Rev. 38 706 Ernest Weekley, the eminent English etymologist and nomenclaturist, says: ‘In 1790 one is struck by the prevalence of crude and grotesque nicknames, often obvious perversions of foreign names.’

1952 Syst. Zool. 1 26/1 One zoologist may be a coleopterist (dealing only with beetles), another may be a nomenclaturist (dealing only with the procedures for naming animals), and still another a zoogeographer.

1992 N.Y. Times Mag. 22 Mar. 20/3 He adds..‘advice to geographical nomenclaturists who feel an urge to scrap our traditional English renderings in order to humor the locals’.