a. [Cf. prec. and -IAN.] One who gives much or undue attention to words.
1823. H. Cole, trans. Luther’s Bondage of the Will, 381. That grammarian or vocabularian whom you call the Erasmian plagiary should be held in contempt.
1883. F. R. Stockton, in Western Nationalist (Beloit, KS), 6 April, 3/1. ‘Eef zay do—’ cried Signorina Morine; and then she restrained herself. She knew her vocabularian weakness.
1899. Pall Mall G., 20 July, 4/1. He [Yeats] is not a vocabularian; he uses, as none but a poet can, the old poetic materials.
