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- adjective of or pertaining to the
lexicon , orvocabulary in general - adjective of or pertaining to a
lexicon ordictionary
Etymologies
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Examples
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Indeed, the mantra that became almost a lexiconic phrase in American dialogue was the exhortation that "we can't let the terrorists win."
Carl Jeffers: Message to TSA: Enough's Enough; Message to President: Here's Your Chance Carl Jeffers 2010
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Indeed, the mantra that became almost a lexiconic phrase in American dialogue was the exhortation that "we can't let the terrorists win."
Carl Jeffers: Message to TSA: Enough's Enough; Message to President: Here's Your Chance Carl Jeffers 2010
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It is parsed and tortured by lawyerly lexiconic trickery, Orwellian Newspeak winning the the levers of power.
DOS, Left Brain Minds Playing with Fire Metaphors in Windows Times 2009
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In celebration of the three hundredth anniversary of Johnson's birth in 1709, a definition from the first edition of the dictionary will be posted each day for readers 'lexiconic delight, beginning on January 1, 2009.
languagehat.com 2009
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"posted each day for readers 'lexiconic delight … words [are] taken from the annotated proof copy of the first edition, extra-illustrated with Johnson's and his helpers' manuscript corrections."
podictionary - for word lovers - dictionary etymology, trivia & history 2009
john commented on the word lexiconic
See lexiphanes.
October 24, 2007