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philologize, v. rare.|fɪˈlɒlədʒaɪz|
[f. Gr. ϕιλόλογ-ος + -ize.]
intr. To play the philologist; to deal in philology (i.e. either literary scholarship, or linguistic science). Also trans. to bring into some condition by philologizing.
1664Evelyn Sylva iii. vi, It is not here that I design to enlarge, as those who have philologiz'd on this occasion de Sycophantis, and other curious Criticismes. 1868Contemp. Rev. VIII. 165 It cannot be criticized or philologized into nothingness, like written record. 1877F. Hall On -able and reliable 25, I have spoken of the unscientific philologizing which has recently become so rife. |