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philologist|fɪˈlɒlədʒɪst|
[f. philology (? or Gr. ϕιλόλογ-ος) + -ist.]
A person versed in or devoted to philology.
1. One devoted to learning or literature; a lover of letters or scholarship; a learned or literary man; a scholar, esp. a classical scholar. Now less usual (cf. philology 1).
1648E. Sparke in Shute's Sarah & Hagar Pref. b j, For his Method, let no nice Philologist distaste it, as too Calvinistical. a1682Sir T. Browne Tracts, Plants Script. §25 Why the Rods and Staffs of the Princes were chosen for this decision Philologists will consider. 1799Mrs. J. West Tale of Times III. 388 Philologists dispute the revealed will of God. 1841Spalding Italy & It. Isl. I. 125 This labour..is least irksome to the professed philologist, who, in the purity of the style and the bold structure of the versification, can forget the weary barrenness of the matter.
2. A person versed in the science of language; a student of language; a linguistic scholar.
1716M. Davies Athen. Brit. III. Diss. Drama 12 He pass'd for an Excelling Philologist, especially as to the Greek Roots. 1770Baretti Journ. fr. London I. 160 Old Facciolati the philologist. 1865Tylor Early Hist. Man. ii. 15 We know so little about the origin of language, that even the greatest philologists are forced..to avoid the subject altogether. 1865Max Müller Chips (1880) I. i. 21 The Comparative Philologist ignores altogether the division of languages according to their locality. |