synonymistn.
/sɪˈnɒnɪmɪst/ One who treats of, or makes a list of, synonyms.
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synonymist1753
1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Synonymists, among the botanical writers, such as have employed their care in the collecting the different names, or synonyma, used by different authors, and reducing them to one another.
1805 W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. 20 18 The German synonimist has produced a work of fuller and sounder information.
1849 J. Stephen Ess. Eccl. Biogr. (1850) II. 155 Neither Crabbe, the synonymist, nor even Samuel Johnson, lexicographer, could have discriminated exactly between the senses of two appellations so equivocal.
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