Also 6 -iste, -yst(e. [ad. L. type *vocabulista: see VOCABLE and -IST. So F. vocabuliste (1731), in sense 2.]
† 1. A vocabulary. Obs.
1530. Baynton, in Palsgr., Introd. p. xiii. Theyr vocabulistes, which have ben of so many yeres, and by so sondry clerkes agatheryng.
1530. Palsgr., 150. Some fewe sentences which the lernar shall fynde before the begynnyng of the sayd vocabulyst.
2. A compiler of a vocabulary.
1545. Bale, Myst. Iniq., 2. After the vocabulystes Tortellius … Calepinus, Guarin’ & soche other vocabulystes.
1800. in Spirit Pub. Jrnls., IV. 147. This is an obsolete phrase, and is not to be found in any vocabulist I know of.
