phraseologistn.

1713 G. Berkeley in Guardian 25 Apr. 2/2 The Author..is but a meer Phraseologist.

1770 J. Andrews Rev. Characters Principal Nations Europe II. 8 Bouhours was little more than a mere Phraseologist in his own language.

1809 W. Irving Hist. N.Y. iv. i. 194 To borrow a favourite..appellation of modern phraseologists.

1899 Westm. Gaz. 18 May 3/2 There is something..which in time perverts its advocate into a mere phraseologist.

1943 Jrnl. Philos. 40 139 Bergson was another voluble, polysyllabic phraseologist who could spin out abstract ideas into larger books.

1954 H. Nicolson Evol. Diplomatic Method iv. 85 Like all phraseologists, he became mesmerised by the strength and neatness of the phrases that he devised.

2002 Financial Times (Nexis) 1 Nov. 12 Now that an equally impressive number of female candidates are expected to ascend to state governorships, the political phraseologists are calling it the Year of the Woman Governor.

1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Phraseologist, an Explainer of elegant Expressions in a Language.

1874 Appletons' Jrnl. 26 Sept. 405/1 The language of Tully, the philosophy of Voltaire, and the amplification of Dr. Johnson, the great Lexiconian phraseologist.

1982 German Q. 55 398 A crystallization point for the recent scholarship of Soviet phraseologists.

1998 Euralex '98 Proc. I. i. 8 Most phraseologists would now limit the term collocation to word-like combinations which are not idioms, but which are in the ‘fuzzy’ part of the scale between idioms and free word-combinations.