[f. late Gr. λεξικογράφ-ος, f. λεξικό-ν LEXICON + -γράφος writer: see -ER1.] A writer or compiler of a dictionary.
1658. Rowland, trans. Moufet’s Theat. Ins., 935. Calepine and other Lexicographers of his gang.
1665. Boyle, Occas. Refl., V. vii. (1675), 322. Suidas, Stephanus, Hesychius, and I know not how many Lexicographers and Scholiasts.
1755. Johnson, Lexicographer, a writer of dictionaries; a harmless drudge, that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the signification of words.
1811. Byron, Hints fr. Horace, 76. Pitt has furnish’d us a word or two Which lexicographers declined to do.
1860. Macaulay, Biog. (1867), 104. The best lexicographer may well be content if his productions are received by the world with cold esteem.
1875. Whitney, Life Lang., v. 88. We use each word as we have learned it, leaving to the lexicographer to follow up the ramifications to their source.
