Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Pertaining to lexicology; relating to the science of words: as, lexicological studies.

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  • adjective pertaining to lexicology

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Examples

  • Other predominant reasons Anderson presents for the pervasive spread of nationalism are new inventions of ideal types of nationalist symbols and other idioms such as lexicological terms that exclude, stereotype, and stress human differences in lieu of bridging human ideological gaps.

    Radovan Karadzic's website and blog 2008

  • But, if your real meaning was not to state an apparent lexicological untruth, but to make a provocative gambit intended to introduce an argument that there are empirical reasons that anyone possessing property has actually stolen it from some proper owner, or that the very concepts of property , or ownership are incoherent in themselves, or maybe contrary to the natural order of things, then its your move!

    Rabett Run EliRabett 2009

  • These are the cardiovascular activity, antiparasitic activity, antiviral activity as well as the verification of some lexicological aspects of products that can be clinically used.

    Chapter 12 1991

  • He did not at first realize the perfect comprehension of the idiom, but he eventually succeeded by patient perseverance, When we read his poems, we are enabled to follow, step by step, his lexicological progress.

    Jasmin: Barber, Poet, Philanthropist Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904 1891

  • He did not at first realize the perfect comprehension of the idiom, but he eventually succeeded by patient perseverance, When we read his poems, we are enabled to follow, step by step, his lexicological progress.

    Jasmin: Barber, Poet, Philanthropist Samuel Smiles 1858

  • "Bob learned to use words to fashion lexicological objets d'art," Timpson observed.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

  • "Bob learned to use words to fashion lexicological objets d'art," Timpson observed.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

  • Well, yes, it does matter, says L P Davidson no relation, the author of Planet Word, a new book published in conjunction with the recent Stephen Fry series of the same name on BBC2, which challenges the cult of the new in matters lexicological.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Max Davidson 2011

  • La Cieca and her panel of experts were overwhelmed at the level of sheer lexicological cleverness exhibited by so many of the cher public in our

    parterre box La Cieca 2010

  • Or maybe it's just that in making way for new words like blog and bromance, staycation, and chillax, we use up the lexicological shelf space that used to accommodate words like assectation, following something else; or drollic, which describes puppet shows.

    NPR Topics: News 2010

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