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/ˌlɛksɪˈkɒɡɹəfi/ · noun
(uncountable) The art or craft of compiling, writing, and editing dictionaries..
[T]here are ſeveral Species of Writing, in which a proper Degree of Hebetude is abſolutely neceſſary, as well as in other profeſſions; such as Lexicography, Index-making, and the like; [...]
And ſuch is the fate of hapleſs lexicography, that not only darkneſs, but light, impedes and diſtreſſes it; things may be not only too little, but too much known, to be happily illuſtrated.
Let me warn you, therefore, against that fallacious lexicography which forms new words, that undergoing the examination of political slander or intemperate zeal, are considered as having a known acception.—What is the word?—A word that should be discarded, when it is sought to affix to it another meaning than that which it bears in the cases where it is used.
[...] I have not only availed myſelf of all the Aſſiſtance which more ancient Sources of Spaniſh Lexicography could afford, but alſo had particular Recourſe to the Dictionary published at Madrid in 1797 and 1798, [...]
There exist different forms of this character, but I think we should not presume to make an etymology of a Chinese character without being authorized by the Shwǒ wǎn, the oldest and most genuine source of Chinese lexicography.
Without doubt, the most important single development in learner lexicography from the mid-1970s onwards has been the steadily increasing involvement of the computer at all stages of the dictionary-making process, from data gathering and analysis at one end, to compilation, production, and revision at the other.
A dictionary, as an art and craft of lexicography, has always been closely associated with the notion of pedagogy.
But changes of this nature belong to lexicography, as they do not affect the grammatical forms of words.
Use lexicography when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Lexicography means (uncountable) The art or craft of compiling, writing, and editing dictionaries..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
[T]here are ſeveral Species of Writing, in which a proper Degree of Hebetude is abſolutely neceſſary, as well as in other profeſſions; such as Lexicography, Index-making, and the like; [...]
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