Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
philologist .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare A philologist.
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- noun A
philologist .
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Examples
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Alfred de Vigny was preparing his Eloa; Nodier was delighting everybody by his talents as a philologian, novelist, poet, and chemist.
Balzac 2003
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The great theologian Harnack, the sound and accomplished political scientist and economist von Schmoller, the distinguished philologian von Wilamowitz, the well-known historian Lamprecht, the profound statesman von Posadowsky, the brilliant diplomatist von
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Alfred de Vigny was preparing his _Eloa_; Nodier was delighting everybody by his talents as a philologian, novelist, poet, and chemist.
Balzac Frederick Lawton
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For an architect ought not to be and cannot be such a philologian as was Aristarchus, although not illiterate; nor a musician like
The Ten Books on Architecture Vitruvius Pollio
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What Sweet did to clear up the history of English pronunciation, 50 and what Wilhelm Crossen did for Latin, no American philologian has yet thought to attempt for American.
Chapter 2. The Beginnings of American. 6. Colonial Pronunciation Henry Louis 1921
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Hermann von Helmholtz, inventor of the opthalmoscope Erwin Rohde, the classical scholar and philologian; and Kuno Fischer, historian of modern philosophy, should be especially mentioned.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913
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Other natives of Rennes are the Benedictine Lobineau (1606-1727), famous for his "histoire de la Brétagne" (1707), and the Jesuit philologian Tournemine (1661-1739).
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913
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Filippo Cecchi; Karl Feyerfeil, mathematician; and Franz Kraus, philologian.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913
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Etienne Dolet (1509-46), a printer, philologian, and pamphleteer, executed at Paris and looked upon by some as a "martyr of the Renaissance", was a native of Orléans.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913
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On his recommendation Peter went in 1645 to Holland to continue his studies, and at the University of Amsterdam, came in contact with many scholars, especially the philologian Gerhard Johann
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913
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