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Webster 1913 Edition
Philologer
Phi-lol′o-ger
,Noun.
[Cf. L.
philologus
a man of letters, Gr. φιλόλογος
, originally, fond of talking; hence, fond of learning and literature; φίλοσ
loving + λόγοσ
speech, discourse.] A philologist.
Burton.
Webster 1828 Edition
Philologer
PHILOL'OGER
Definition 2024
philologer
philologer
English
Noun
philologer (plural philologers)
- (archaic) A philologist.
- c. 1721, Jonathan Swift, "George-Nim-Dan-Dean's Answer," in The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Vol. II:
- Philologers of future ages,
- How will they pore upon thy pages!
- 1887, Georg Ebers, The Bride of the Nile, Preface:
- The lexicographer Suidas enumerates the works of Horapollo, the philologer and commentator on Greek poetry.
- 2003, Douglas T. McGetchin, "Wilting Florists: The Turbulent Early Decades of the Societe Asiatique, 1822-1860," Journal of the History of Ideas, vol. 64, no. 4, p. 570:
- In his articles Schultz specifically criticized "philologer-poets" and their loose, poetic, literary approach to studying and translating Oriental texts.
- c. 1721, Jonathan Swift, "George-Nim-Dan-Dean's Answer," in The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Vol. II: