lexicographist

lexicography +‎ -ist

lexicographist (plural lexicographists)

1. (chiefly archaic) A student specialising in the discipline of lexicography; lexicographer.
   • 1889, William Gardner Hale The Cum‐Constructions, John Wilson and Son; Chapter VII, page #247:

     Whatever the a priori grammarian might do, the lexicographist, at any rate, ought to have thought it antecedently probably that, here and there, a construction with which a given idea, not expressed by it, was naturally associated, would come in time to be understood and used as expressing that idea.

• dictionarian
• dictionarist
• lexicographer