His work was, however, generally accepted as a final authority, and the ideas upon which it was founded dominated English lexicographyfor more than a century.
On its practical side the advance in lexicography has consisted in the elaboration of methods long in use rather than in the invention of new ones.
But the wider scope and special aims of the new lexicography demand that the investigation shall be vastly more comprehensive, systematic and precise.
In fact, the attention that has been paid to these two points in the best recent lexicography is one of its distinguishing and most important characteristics.
And for more than 300 years after the Conquest English lexicography stood still.
But only two independent contributions to the development of lexicography were made in the earlier half of the nineteenth century.
At any rate, it can be maintained that in the Oxford Dictionary, permeated as it is through and through with the scientific method of the century, Lexicography has for the present reached its supreme development.
Such was the position of English lexicography in the middle of the nineteenth century, when the late Dr.
But the only new feature introduced into lexicography between 1755 and the end of the century was the indication of the Orthoepy or Pronunciation.
Thus the evolution of English Lexicography has followed with no faltering steps the evolution of English History and the development of English Literature.
An important collection of these early beginnings of lexicography in England was made so long ago as 1857, by the late distinguished antiquary Thomas Wright, and published as the first volume of a Library of National Antiquities.
The rigor of interpretative lexicography requires that the explanation, and the word explained should be always reciprocal; this I have always endeavoured, but could not always attain.
Lexicography was perhaps the department of pure scholarship in which the greatest advances were made.
Grammar and lexicography are the two bases of exegesis.
Moreover, in the matter of lexicography the laazim offer useful material for the history of certain words, and bring to our knowledge popular words not to be found in literary and official texts.
A few years later Webster found an opportunity to attack the general subject of lexicography from another side, and one intimately connected with his special work.
Webster's next point is that Johnson has exceeded the bounds of legitimate lexicography by the admission of vulgar and cant words.
This was then the largest storehouse, as it has since been, and the reader may be reminded that this great start in lexicography was coincident with the beginning of modern scientific research.
The substitution of words and phrases now in good use for such as are wholly obsolete, or deemed below the dignity and solemnity of the subject.
Perhaps the student of lexicography could spare neither.
In this age, grammatical learning was represented by Choeroboscus, and lexicography by Photius (d.
Lastly, he established a scientific system of lexicographyand drew up lists of the "best authors.
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