Definition of philology in English:

philology

noun fɪˈlɒlədʒifəˈlɑlədʒi

mass noun

1The branch of knowledge that deals with the structure, historical development, and relationships of a language or languages.
Example sentencesExamples
- Probably, during these years, he began studying the philology of the Polish language at Warsaw University.
- Poetry and its handmaidens, philology, the study of language history, of grammar, all of those disciplines are the great disciplines of that culture at that period of time in particular.
- The German-inspired academic study of philology was coming into fashion and influenced language observation methods in Africa.
- In philology, our Sanskrit language is now universally acknowledged to be the foundation of all European languages, which, in fact, are nothing but jargonized Sanskrit.
- Jones argued that one could compare cognate terms and infer a historical relationship between languages and this has become the foundation of modern philology.
- Both a study in philology and a history of ideas, The American Language continued in the tradition of Webster and Whitman to defend American English against its detractors.
- Rhys's linguistic speculations may now be largely out-dated, but the Lectures on Welsh Philology helped put the study of philology, in particular the philology of the Welsh language, on a secure academic basis.
- In philology a hapax legomenon is almost always a word and is a problem because a single usage doesn't generally give us enough information to figure out what it means.
- Having mastered Sanskrit, he translated parts of Indian classics including the scriptures (the Veda) and laid the foundations for comparative philology.
- The main linguistic tool employed for reconstructing languages is the comparative method or comparative philology, first developed by Sir William Jones, an Englishman living in India.
1. 1.1North American Literary or classical scholarship.
  Example sentencesExamples
  The relationship between reading, understanding and the construction of consciousness has been extensively studied in philology and in hermeneutic and phenomenological philosophy, which Manguel does not discuss.
  One principle of editing arises from the rich tradition of textual criticism in philology.
  In literary studies that position texts in the context of intellectual history,, we find a large body of work that extends the long line of cultural criticism that has its roots in philology and history-of-ideas scholarship.
  The highly flexible nature of the studia humanitatis encouraged the study of a variety of new disciplines, such as classical philology, literature, history, and moral philosophy.
  As a student of Latin, Greek and Hebrew grammar and philology, Calvin would have known that it is very difficult to understand any given text with clarity, and would have doubted our ability to ascertain the truth with certainty.

Derivatives

philologian

noun fɪləˈləʊdʒ(ə)n

In the absence of a complete up-to-date philological dictionary his four published volumes serve the philologian, and not merely the historical linguist.
Example sentencesExamples
- Paul wants to dispose of the wisdom of this world: his enemies are the good philologians and physicians of the Alexandrine school on them he makes his war.

philological

adjective fɪləˈlɒdʒɪk(ə)lˌfɪləˈlɑdʒək(ə)l

The Berlin anthropologist Bastian argued that Humboldt's ‘comparative method’ allowed natural science to surpass historical and philological criticism as a tool for interpreting human culture.
Example sentencesExamples
- As he unravels the origins of Tolkien's work, Shippey goes into great philological detail about the origins of words.
- Using his humanist skills in rhetoric, philosophy, and philology, he demonstrated that its historical anachronisms, philological errors, and contradictions in logic revealed that the Donation was an 8th-century forgery.
- His philological pursuits, interest in Indian legal literature (rare among Europeans of his time), and his liberal political outlook, introduced him to Indian languages, including SANSKRIT.
- Both in his translation and in his other exegetical work, he employed philological techniques unusual for Jewish scholars: he attempted to derive the literal meaning of the texts from the semantics of the individual words.

philologically

adverb fɪləˈlɒdʒɪk(ə)li

Twentieth-century approaches to palaeography included the philologically based methods of Ludwig Traube of Munich and the technical and aesthetic perceptions of E. A. Lowe.
Example sentencesExamples
- It's do or die as six deliciously geeky, philologically-industrious twelve-year-olds battle it out for glory in the spelling championship of a lifetime.
- Because of such developments, the term Indo-European is still historically, philologically, and taxonomically sound, but it has lost its geographical rationale.
- The German view of philologically interesting mythologies pregnant with sophisticated ideas proved uncommonly congenial to the British.
- For example, Davis treats various kinds of ambiguity that are philologically quite different on more or less the same plane.

philologist

noun fɪˈlɒlədʒɪstfəˈlɑlədʒəst

The philologists claimed that Arabic, Hebrew, Aramaic, Amharic, etc., were ‘Semitic’ languages, even though philologists could never find a parent Semitic language from which they all derived."
Example sentencesExamples
- The play on words, imagery and alliterations that fall in place so spontaneously are a treat for the philologist.
- A philologist at Oxford University, he was an expert in the study of the roots of the English language and its early literature.
- Singh avoids the uncomfortable example of the Mayan script to which various cryptographic techniques were applied to no avail, until the linguistic insight of the Russian philologist Knorosov provided success in decipherment.
- The Swiss philologist had shown that all meaning was not inherent in terms (still less their objects), but in the relations between terms.

philologize

verb

Origin

Late Middle English (in the Greek sense): current usage (late 17th century) from French philologie, via Latin from Greek philologia 'love of learning' (see philo-, -logy).

Definition of philology in US English:

philology

nounfəˈläləjēfəˈlɑlədʒi

1The branch of knowledge that deals with the structure, historical development, and relationships of a language or languages.
Example sentencesExamples
- Having mastered Sanskrit, he translated parts of Indian classics including the scriptures (the Veda) and laid the foundations for comparative philology.
- The German-inspired academic study of philology was coming into fashion and influenced language observation methods in Africa.
- In philology a hapax legomenon is almost always a word and is a problem because a single usage doesn't generally give us enough information to figure out what it means.
- The main linguistic tool employed for reconstructing languages is the comparative method or comparative philology, first developed by Sir William Jones, an Englishman living in India.
- Probably, during these years, he began studying the philology of the Polish language at Warsaw University.
- Rhys's linguistic speculations may now be largely out-dated, but the Lectures on Welsh Philology helped put the study of philology, in particular the philology of the Welsh language, on a secure academic basis.
- In philology, our Sanskrit language is now universally acknowledged to be the foundation of all European languages, which, in fact, are nothing but jargonized Sanskrit.
- Poetry and its handmaidens, philology, the study of language history, of grammar, all of those disciplines are the great disciplines of that culture at that period of time in particular.
- Jones argued that one could compare cognate terms and infer a historical relationship between languages and this has become the foundation of modern philology.
- Both a study in philology and a history of ideas, The American Language continued in the tradition of Webster and Whitman to defend American English against its detractors.
1. 1.1North American Literary or classical scholarship.
  Example sentencesExamples
  In literary studies that position texts in the context of intellectual history,, we find a large body of work that extends the long line of cultural criticism that has its roots in philology and history-of-ideas scholarship.
  One principle of editing arises from the rich tradition of textual criticism in philology.
  As a student of Latin, Greek and Hebrew grammar and philology, Calvin would have known that it is very difficult to understand any given text with clarity, and would have doubted our ability to ascertain the truth with certainty.
  The highly flexible nature of the studia humanitatis encouraged the study of a variety of new disciplines, such as classical philology, literature, history, and moral philosophy.
  The relationship between reading, understanding and the construction of consciousness has been extensively studied in philology and in hermeneutic and phenomenological philosophy, which Manguel does not discuss.

Origin

Late Middle English (in the Greek sense): current usage (late 17th century) from French philologie, via Latin from Greek philologia ‘love of learning’ (see philo-, -logy).

单词	philology
释义	Definition of philology in English: philology noun fɪˈlɒlədʒifəˈlɑlədʒi mass noun 1The branch of knowledge that deals with the structure, historical development, and relationships of a language or languages. Example sentencesExamples Probably, during these years, he began studying the philology of the Polish language at Warsaw University. Poetry and its handmaidens, philology, the study of language history, of grammar, all of those disciplines are the great disciplines of that culture at that period of time in particular. The German-inspired academic study of philology was coming into fashion and influenced language observation methods in Africa. In philology, our Sanskrit language is now universally acknowledged to be the foundation of all European languages, which, in fact, are nothing but jargonized Sanskrit. Jones argued that one could compare cognate terms and infer a historical relationship between languages and this has become the foundation of modern philology. Both a study in philology and a history of ideas, The American Language continued in the tradition of Webster and Whitman to defend American English against its detractors. Rhys's linguistic speculations may now be largely out-dated, but the Lectures on Welsh Philology helped put the study of philology, in particular the philology of the Welsh language, on a secure academic basis. In philology a hapax legomenon is almost always a word and is a problem because a single usage doesn't generally give us enough information to figure out what it means. Having mastered Sanskrit, he translated parts of Indian classics including the scriptures (the Veda) and laid the foundations for comparative philology. The main linguistic tool employed for reconstructing languages is the comparative method or comparative philology, first developed by Sir William Jones, an Englishman living in India. 1.1North American Literary or classical scholarship. Example sentencesExamples The relationship between reading, understanding and the construction of consciousness has been extensively studied in philology and in hermeneutic and phenomenological philosophy, which Manguel does not discuss. One principle of editing arises from the rich tradition of textual criticism in philology. In literary studies that position texts in the context of intellectual history,, we find a large body of work that extends the long line of cultural criticism that has its roots in philology and history-of-ideas scholarship. The highly flexible nature of the studia humanitatis encouraged the study of a variety of new disciplines, such as classical philology, literature, history, and moral philosophy. As a student of Latin, Greek and Hebrew grammar and philology, Calvin would have known that it is very difficult to understand any given text with clarity, and would have doubted our ability to ascertain the truth with certainty. Derivatives philologian noun fɪləˈləʊdʒ(ə)n In the absence of a complete up-to-date philological dictionary his four published volumes serve the philologian, and not merely the historical linguist. Example sentencesExamples Paul wants to dispose of the wisdom of this world: his enemies are the good philologians and physicians of the Alexandrine school on them he makes his war. philological adjective fɪləˈlɒdʒɪk(ə)lˌfɪləˈlɑdʒək(ə)l The Berlin anthropologist Bastian argued that Humboldt's ‘comparative method’ allowed natural science to surpass historical and philological criticism as a tool for interpreting human culture. Example sentencesExamples As he unravels the origins of Tolkien's work, Shippey goes into great philological detail about the origins of words. Using his humanist skills in rhetoric, philosophy, and philology, he demonstrated that its historical anachronisms, philological errors, and contradictions in logic revealed that the Donation was an 8th-century forgery. His philological pursuits, interest in Indian legal literature (rare among Europeans of his time), and his liberal political outlook, introduced him to Indian languages, including SANSKRIT. Both in his translation and in his other exegetical work, he employed philological techniques unusual for Jewish scholars: he attempted to derive the literal meaning of the texts from the semantics of the individual words. philologically adverb fɪləˈlɒdʒɪk(ə)li Twentieth-century approaches to palaeography included the philologically based methods of Ludwig Traube of Munich and the technical and aesthetic perceptions of E. A. Lowe. Example sentencesExamples It's do or die as six deliciously geeky, philologically-industrious twelve-year-olds battle it out for glory in the spelling championship of a lifetime. Because of such developments, the term Indo-European is still historically, philologically, and taxonomically sound, but it has lost its geographical rationale. The German view of philologically interesting mythologies pregnant with sophisticated ideas proved uncommonly congenial to the British. For example, Davis treats various kinds of ambiguity that are philologically quite different on more or less the same plane. philologist noun fɪˈlɒlədʒɪstfəˈlɑlədʒəst The philologists claimed that Arabic, Hebrew, Aramaic, Amharic, etc., were ‘Semitic’ languages, even though philologists could never find a parent Semitic language from which they all derived." Example sentencesExamples The play on words, imagery and alliterations that fall in place so spontaneously are a treat for the philologist. A philologist at Oxford University, he was an expert in the study of the roots of the English language and its early literature. Singh avoids the uncomfortable example of the Mayan script to which various cryptographic techniques were applied to no avail, until the linguistic insight of the Russian philologist Knorosov provided success in decipherment. The Swiss philologist had shown that all meaning was not inherent in terms (still less their objects), but in the relations between terms. philologize verb Origin Late Middle English (in the Greek sense): current usage (late 17th century) from French philologie, via Latin from Greek philologia 'love of learning' (see philo-, -logy). Definition of philology in US English: philology nounfəˈläləjēfəˈlɑlədʒi 1The branch of knowledge that deals with the structure, historical development, and relationships of a language or languages. Example sentencesExamples Having mastered Sanskrit, he translated parts of Indian classics including the scriptures (the Veda) and laid the foundations for comparative philology. The German-inspired academic study of philology was coming into fashion and influenced language observation methods in Africa. In philology a hapax legomenon is almost always a word and is a problem because a single usage doesn't generally give us enough information to figure out what it means. The main linguistic tool employed for reconstructing languages is the comparative method or comparative philology, first developed by Sir William Jones, an Englishman living in India. Probably, during these years, he began studying the philology of the Polish language at Warsaw University. Rhys's linguistic speculations may now be largely out-dated, but the Lectures on Welsh Philology helped put the study of philology, in particular the philology of the Welsh language, on a secure academic basis. In philology, our Sanskrit language is now universally acknowledged to be the foundation of all European languages, which, in fact, are nothing but jargonized Sanskrit. Poetry and its handmaidens, philology, the study of language history, of grammar, all of those disciplines are the great disciplines of that culture at that period of time in particular. Jones argued that one could compare cognate terms and infer a historical relationship between languages and this has become the foundation of modern philology. Both a study in philology and a history of ideas, The American Language continued in the tradition of Webster and Whitman to defend American English against its detractors. 1.1North American Literary or classical scholarship. Example sentencesExamples In literary studies that position texts in the context of intellectual history,, we find a large body of work that extends the long line of cultural criticism that has its roots in philology and history-of-ideas scholarship. One principle of editing arises from the rich tradition of textual criticism in philology. As a student of Latin, Greek and Hebrew grammar and philology, Calvin would have known that it is very difficult to understand any given text with clarity, and would have doubted our ability to ascertain the truth with certainty. The highly flexible nature of the studia humanitatis encouraged the study of a variety of new disciplines, such as classical philology, literature, history, and moral philosophy. The relationship between reading, understanding and the construction of consciousness has been extensively studied in philology and in hermeneutic and phenomenological philosophy, which Manguel does not discuss. Origin Late Middle English (in the Greek sense): current usage (late 17th century) from French philologie, via Latin from Greek philologia ‘love of learning’ (see philo-, -logy).
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