Definition of "lexicographers" []

• Plural form of lexicographer. (noun)

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• "The first in date of our English lexicographers is Dr. John Bullokar, who published in 1616 An English Expositour teaching the Interpretation of the hardest Words used in our Language with sundry Explications, Descriptions and Discourses."
• "There is an occasionally discomforting Tea Party flavour to his approach, as in his definition of lexicographers as "descriptivists, language liberals.""
• "And even for those that can read, they must depend upon a human testimony, that what they read is a true translation: supposing them not to be learned themselves in, or not having opportunity to consult the originals, they must depend upon the testimony of the learned, who have viewed those books in the originals, such as lexicographers, and the like, for the true signification and translation of the words they read."