A lexicographer of the tenth century, composer of the most comprehensive Greek dictionary of early times.
A dictionary, as Johnson conceived it, was in fact work for a "harmless drudge," the definition of a lexicographer given in the book itself.
Somewhere in Chelsea--not Glebe Place--the Lexicographerhad seen just the thing, if only he could be quite sure about the drains.
What about the Lexicographerand the Official Receiver?
The genius that throws its prophetic eye over the language, and the taste that must come from Heaven, no lexicographer imagines are required to accompany him amidst a library of old books!
Boswell has denied the truth of a report which had gained credit, that on his representing the lexicographer to his father as a constellation of genius, he replied, “Ursa Major.
He agreed in his next edition to exclude Blacket’s anecdote, and to substitute allusion to Macdonald’s shabbiness by quoting his Latin verses, welcoming thelexicographer to Skye.
It was arranged that Boswell should accompany the lexicographer throughout the northern journey; and he made offer to attend to all business concerns, including those of finance.
Through Sheridan an introduction seemed easy, but Boswell on visiting him found that he and the lexicographerhad differed.
The lexicographerwas in declining health, and was proportionally amiable.
They spent Good Friday together, Boswell accompanying the lexicographerto morning and evening service in St. Clement’s Church.
As might have been expected, the lexicographer felt most keenly the allusion to his rough manners, and he was placed in circumstances in which retort was impossible.
Received with much cordiality, he proceeded to entertain the lexicographer with Voltaire’s opinions of some of the English poets.
To meet Boswell, the lexicographer was invited more than once, but as our author puts it, “he was by some unlucky accident or other prevented from coming to us.
With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer I beg to submit that it is the first.
Eugene Debs To these excellent definitions the inspired lexicographer feels that he can add nothing of value.
Wherefore the lexicographer adviseth a striving toward the straiter [sic] resemblance of the Average Man than he hath to himself.
A word which some lexicographer has marked obsolete is ever thereafter an object of dread and loathing to the fool writer, but if it is a good word and has no exact modern equivalent equally good, it is good enough for the good writer.
There are other arts serving the same high purpose, but the discreet lexicographer does not name them.
A game said to be played with cards for some purpose to thislexicographer unknown.
The great lexicographer had a heart to be won by apparent affection; he stood forth authoritatively in support of his vassal.
The doctor was from home at the time, and Bozzy and Mrs. Williams, in a critical conference over the letter, determined from the style that it must have been written by the lexicographer himself.
Foote had no disposition to undergo the criticism of the cudgel wielded by such potent hands, so the farce of The Orators appeared without the caricatures of the lexicographer and the essayist.
This madcap freak of the great lexicographer made a sensation, as may well be supposed, among his intimates.
The great lexicographer spent many happy hours in the abode of his friend, and as at one time there was a slight doubt on the matter, it is as well to place on record here that the house in which Hector, the surgeon, resided, was No.
That our local governors have a due appreciation of the genius of the famed lexicographer is shown by the fact of a passage-way from Bull Street to the Upper Priory being named "Dr.
It is not taken from any forged book fathered upon the bishop of Hierapolis, but from a genuine work of another Papias, a Latin lexicographer of the eleventh century.
The Syrian lexicographer Bar Ali also, who flourished about the end of the ninth century, mentions that Tatian omitted both the genealogies: see Payne Smith's Thes.
Here, my dear Bernard, you have before you a true portrait of the celebrated Daffy{2} Club, done from the life by our 2 The great lexicographer of the fancy gives the following definition of the word Daffy.
Every other author may aspire to praise; the lexicographer can only hope to escape reproach, and even this negative recompense has been yet granted to very few.
His black servant, whose name is Francis Barber, has been pressed on board the Stag Frigate, Captain Angel, and our lexicographer is in great distress.
The facts with regard to these things which the wide research necessitated by the historical method furnishes abundantly to the modern lexicographerare often among the most novel and interesting of his acquisitions.
According to Suidas, the most ancient Greek lexicographer was Apollonius the sophist, son of Archibius.
Every other authour may aspire to praise; the lexicographer can only hope to escape reproach, and even this negative recompense has been yet granted to very few.
The great lexicographer knew Fleet Street better than he did the fleet, and his opinion, as expressed above, was hardly even decently patriotic or sensible.
William Kenrick, in 1773, seems to have been the first English lexicographer to denounce this pronunciation.
The Influence of Webster/--At the time of the first settlement of America the rules of English orthography were beautifully vague, and so we find the early documents full of spellings that would give an English lexicographer much pain today.
Wherefore the lexicographer adviseth a striving toward a straiter resemblance to the Average Man than he hath to himself.
And, in the Raghuvamsa, the poet Kalidasa describes Koronos as the offspring of a Vaisya and a Sudra woman, and he is supported by the lexicographer Amara Sinha.
Again, the ancient lexicographer of the Tamil language, Pingala Muni, defines Kurumban as Kurunila Mannar, or petty chieftains.
Here the lexicographer forgets his false etymology of a before the participle, and writes the words separately, as the generality of authors always have done.
Words of this kind are manufactured in such numbers that the lexicographer is inclined to wait and see whether they will catch on.
