dictionarianadj.n.

a1774 R. Fergusson Poems Var. Subj. (1779) II. 126 Bless thy name, thy dictionarian skill, Which there definitive will still remain, And oft be speculiz'd by taper blue, While youth studentious turn thy folio page.

1900 E. T. Fowler Double Thread vi. 80 [He preaches] in what I call the dictionarian style—that is to say, he adapts himself to his hearers and presupposes that his congregation are as ignorant of their dictionaries as they are of their Bibles.

2000 Stage (Nexis) 7 Dec. 14 The dictionarian duel between Roger Braban's Bunyans as a probable seducer and Max Harvey's Johnson, a noisome cuckold, is more aggressively, less donnishly drawn.

1797 B. Dawson Prolepsis Philologiæ Anglicanæ vi. 33 The method, on which all our Dictionarians generally proceed—of explaining one word by another—is not only defective but erroneous.

a1800 S. Pegge Anecd. Eng. Lang. (1803) 40 Dr. Johnson, however, our latest Dictionarian (if you will allow me to use the term) gives no instance of these words being written with such defalcations.

1835 F. W. N. Bailey Scenes & Stories III. 31 You have heard of Johnson the Doctor and Dictionarian.

1919 Virginia Law Reg. 4 851 If the eminent ‘dictionarian’ intended to cast a slur upon one of the greatest virtues of true manhood he uttered one of the most collosal [sic] falsehoods of history.

1996 M. Cornog & T. Perper For Sex Educ. i. iii. 38 The expurgated Bible, upon which surgery had been performed by Thomas and Harriet Bowdler, dictionarian Noah Webster, and many others.