Example sentences for: lexicographical

How can you use “lexicographical” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The second part is Simes's lexicographical commentary on the material provided by Hartley and Thirty-five, often giving information about the origin of the term, whether it is Australian, whether it is otherwise unrecorded, and so on.

  • To aid the larger lexicographical enterprise, I'm interested in collecting samples of references to yadda yadda yadda (or similarly imitative terms) in any communications media other than paper.

  • As a consequence of all this deadwood, we are denied useful lexicographical information, like the fact that chapter and capital are cognates.

  • From his commentary it is clear that Thirty-five, when compiling his glossary, had access to a number of books, including Partridge's Slang To-day and Yesterday and the 1945 edition of The Australian Language . His more expansive glosses focus primarily on lexicographical matters, including some etymological speculation.

  • This lexicographical trend won't cure the textualists' reputation for stiltedness; reading some of these opinions is like listening to the high-school valedictorian who inevitably begins, "I didn't know what to say today, so I looked up the word 'commencement.


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