[f. as prec. + -IST.] One addicted to logomachy; one who disputes about verbal subtleties.
1825. Coleridge, in Lit. Rem. (1839), IV. 272. If I met with a disputatious word-catcher or logomachist.
1882. Pall Mall Gaz., 11 May, 3/1. One feels inclined … to ask like some old logomachist what he exactly means by ‘is.’
