glossographer

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English

Etymology

From glosso- +‎ -grapher.

Noun

glossographer (plural glossographers)

  1. a writer of a glossary; a commentator
    • 1613, John Hayward, Lives of the Three Norman Kings of England:
      the Glossographer vpon the Decrees noteth, that the ſonne of a King may bee called King during the life of his father

References

glossographer”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.