Literary notes about Lexicographer (AI summary)
The term "lexicographer" in literature is often deployed with a mix of literal recognition and symbolic admiration for those who shape language. In Thackeray’s Vanity Fair, for example, the lexicographer is portrayed indirectly through personal association—both as a friend offering abundant information [1] and as an esteemed national figure whose associate is admired [2]. Similarly, historical figures like Calepin are noted not merely as recorders of words but as iconic intellectuals in their own right [3]. Even specialized texts such as those on Masonry invoke the term to underline a figure whose detailed attention to language renders particular words, like “labor,” profoundly significant [4].
- The friend of the Lexicographer had plenty of information to give.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray - How I wish I could present him and my beloved girls to the friend of my youth, and the ADMIRED of the great lexicographer of our country!
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray - [Calepin (Ambrogio da Calepio), a famous lexicographer of the fifteenth century.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne - "Labor," says Gadicke, the German masonic lexicographer, "is an important word in Masonry; indeed, we might say the most important.
— from The symbolism of Freemasonry : by Albert Gallatin Mackey
