单词 | philologist |
释义 | philologistn. 1. A person devoted to learning or literature; a scholar, esp. of literature or classics. Now rare.Cf. note s.v. philology n. 1. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > scholarly knowledge, erudition > learned person, scholar > [noun] uþwitec888 larewc900 learnerc900 witec900 wise manOE leredc1154 masterc1225 readera1387 artificer1449 man of science1482 rabbi1527 rabbin1531 worthy1567 artsmanc1574 philologer1588 artist1592 virtuoso1613 sophist1614 fulla1616 scholastica1633 philologist1638 gnostic1641 scholarian1647 pundit1661 scientman1661 savant1719 ollamh1723 maulvi1776 pandect1791 Sabora1797 erudit1800 mallam1829 Gelehrter1836 erudite1865 walking encyclopaedia1868 Einstein1942 1638 W. Rawley tr. F. Bacon Hist. Nat. & Exper. Life & Death 123 This is delivered unto us by certain Philologists [L. Philologis]. 1649 E. Sparke in J. Shute Sarah & Hagar To Rdr. sig. b For his Method, let no nice Philologist distaste it, as too Calvinistical. a1682 Sir T. Browne Certain Misc. Tracts (1683) i. 31 Why the Rods and Staffs of the Princes were chosen for this decision, Philologists will consider. 1738 D. Neal Hist. Puritans IV. iii. 132 He was a perfect Master of the Greek Tongue, a good Philologist, and an admirable Disputant. 1799 J. West Tale of Times III. 388 Philologists dispute the revealed will of God. 1841 W. Spalding Italy & Ital. Islands 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. 1895 T. Hardy Jude ii. i. 95 The scientists and philologists followed on in his mind-sight in an odd impossible combination. 1948 L. Spitzer Linguistics & Lit. Hist. p. v A knowledge without which all endeavors of the philologist to explain poetry to an American public must fail completely. 2. An expert in or student of linguistics; a specialist in the structure and historical development of a language or languages. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > [noun] > one who studies philologue1594 linguist1605 philologer1653 philologist1695 terminologist1806 glossologist1817 philologian1823 linguister1870 glottologist1874 linguistic scientist1875 linguistician1895 historicist1937 wordster1965 1695 J. Edwards Disc. conc. Old & New-Test. III. i. 3 Here Linguists and Philologists may find that which is to be found no where else. 1716 M. Davies Diss. Author & Oecon. Lat. Drama 12 in Athenæ Britannicæ III He pass'd for an Excelling Philologist, especially as to the Greek Roots. 1770 G. Baretti Journey London to Genoa I. 160 Old Facciolati the philologist. 1816 W. Scott Antiquary I. vi. 130 I conceive that is a dispute which may be easily settled by philologists, if there are any remains of the language. 1865 E. B. Tylor Res. Early Hist. Mankind ii. 15 We know so little about the origin of language, that even the greatest philologists are forced..to avoid the subject altogether. 1867 F. M. Müller Chips from German Workshop I. i. 21 The Comparative Philologist ignores altogether the division of languages according to their locality. 1905 O. Jespersen Growth & Struct. Eng. Lang. 23 The consonant-shift is important to the modern philologist. 1955 Sci. Amer. July 42/3 The Akkadian script in which the tablets were written was already familiar to philologists. 2000 Sci. Amer. Oct. 66/1 Philologists assume that Semites migrated into Mesopotamia around the end of the fourth millennium B.C. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1638 |
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