philologern.

1588 J. Harvey Discoursiue Probl. conc. Prophesies 63 Antiquaries, philologers, schoolemen, and other learned discoursers.

?c1622 E. Bolton Hypercritica (1722) iv. v. 252 The most approved, and learned Philologer, and Antiquary of our Nation Mr Cambden.

1659 P. Heylyn Examen Historicum i. 129 John Selden, of the Inner Temple,..that renown'd Humanitian and Philologer, sometime a Commoner of this House.

1694 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 18 274 Such modern philologers have had a greater extent of ancient learning, than any single man among the ancients could possibly have.

1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Philologer, an Humanist, a Man of Letters.

1789 W. Jones Sacontalá p. v Vicramaditya..gave encouragement to poets, philologers, and mathematicians, at a time when the Britons were as unlettered and unpolished as the army of Hanumat.

a1801 J. Hurdis Relapse (1810) 155 Toiling philologer, abate thy zeal; Presuming critic, throw aside thy books.

1878 N. Amer. Rev. Jan. 83 The world has been much more prolific of learned scientists and philologers than of able generals.

1653 H. Moseley in Ld. Brouncker tr. R. Descartes Excellent Compend. Musick sig. a4 Even the best of our Moderne Grammarians, and Philologers derive the Musick, as also the Muses, from the Greeke Verbe, μάω, that signifies to Explore with desire.

1660 J. Howell Lex. Tetraglotton Pref. To the tru Philologer, Touching the English (or Saxon) with the three Sororian Toungs, French, Italian and Spanish.

1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Philologer, one whose chief study is language; a grammarian; a critick.

1792 R. Valpy Progr. Morality (1793) 47 (note) Would the philologer..be offended, if the term Philosophism were hazarded, to express the abuse, or the reverse, of Philosophy?

1840 T. Arnold Let. in A. P. Stanley Life & Corr. T. Arnold (1858) II. 174 Donaldson, the author of the new Cratylus, and almost the only Englishman who promises, I think, to be a really good philologer.

1882 E. A. Freeman in Longman's Mag. 1 83 The word ‘American’, as applied to language, means, in the mouth of a comparative philologer, the native languages of the American Continent.

1906 G. Meredith Let. 5 Apr. (1970) III. 1556 I remember reading in my youth Otto Jahn's Memoir of the great Philologer Hermann.

1992 R. DeMaria in C. Blank Lang. & Civilization I. 22 The Romanizing of classically-oriented philologers, of whom Johnson was often cited as chief.