1755 A writer of dictionaries; a harmless drudge that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the signification of words. — Samuel Johnson, lexicographer, in his seminal dictionary
1811 Pitt has furnish'd us a word or two Which lexicographers declined to do. — George Gordon Byron, Hints from Horace
1860 The best lexicographer may well be content if his productions are received by the world with cold esteem. — Thomas Babington Macaulay, Biographies contributed to the Encyclopædia Britannica
To the lexicographer, God is simply the word that comes next to go-cart -
