philologicallyadv.

1643 W. Burton tr. J. H. Alsted Beloved City 84 The Text it self, in which are to be considered the Analysis, or Resolution, either Philologically, and Theologically, or Logically, and Theologically.

1648 J. Mason Princeps Rhetoricus 2 Severall words, canvased Philologically through the Grammarians, Lexicons, Glossaries, Nomenclators, Criticks, Historians, quasi opus Philologicum.

1661 T. Blount Peacham's Compl. Gentleman (new ed.) xvii*. 263 See Learned Hieron. Mercurialis: in his books, De Arte Gymnastica: where this matter is fully handled, both Physically..and Philologically.

1709 D. Jones Compl. Hist. Europe 519 In the Year 1655 he Publish'd a Complete Work of Arithmetick, wherein he treats that Science Mathematically and Philologically.

1797 T. J. Mathias Pursuits of Lit.: Pt. IV 38 There is no passage..which will not at last admit of such an illustration or explanation, I mean philologically or critically, so as to put to silence the ignorance of foolish men.

1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick xxxii. 149 Philologically considered, it is absurd.

1884 H. D. Traill in Macmillan's Mag. Oct. 442/1 I have never yet met a man..who was philologically qualified for a seat on the bench.

1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 145/2 This is philologically illustrated by the words οξυς, acidus, sour, and οξος, acetus, vinegar.

1990 Bull. Hispanic Stud. 67 405/1 Many medieval Latinists and historians still think Muller is philologically respectable.