phraseologist

Noun

phraseologist (plural phraseologists)

1. A writer or speaker who coins clever phrases; One who is eloquent.
   • The author of Poetæ Rusticantis literatum Otium is but a mere phraseologist, the philological publisher is but a translator; but I expected better usage from Mr. Abel Roper, who is an original.1802, Alexander Chalmers, The British Essayists: The Guardian, page 204
   • They have descriptive powers, write charmingly, and tickle our sense of profundity with high-wounding dogmas and moral theories, which seem, indeed, plausible enough; but on comparing the description with the work describe, we find, now unfrequently, that the eloquent and dainty phraseologist could...1865 December, “Mr. Church's Pictures”, in Eclectic Magazine, volume 2, page 692
2. One who studies or collects phrases
   • Another correspondent, who has 'completed [his] education in the language of Tully, the philosophy of Voltaire, and the amplification of Dr. Johnson, the great Lexiconian phraseologist,' aspires to become the dramatic critic of the journal alluded to, and give the following taste of his quality:1874 August, “Orient Pearls at Random Strung”, in Tinsley's Magazine, volume 15, page 201
   • At the other end there is the phraseologist's view that at least one member of the collocation has to be restricted (Howarth 1998b).2009, Roberta Corrigan, Formulaic Language - Volume 2, page 329
3. One who specializes in phraseological details of a field.
   • Two further aspects should be underlined: (a) the terminologist is generally also a 'phraseologist' and (b) the task of the terminologist is now recognised as a bona fide job within certain companies.2007, Daniel Gouadec, Translation as a Profession, page 116
   • It is particularly problematic for the phraseologist to presuppose that a modification is properly understood when the reader has been able to work out all the elements/information that the phraseologist has detected in the modification, for it might even go far beyond what the producer, always...2014, Sylvia Jaki, Phraseological Substitutions in Newspaper Headlines, page 102