Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Same as philologist.
Wiktionary
- n. A philologist.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. rare A philologist.
Examples
“Alfred de Vigny was preparing his Eloa; Nodier was delighting everybody by his talents as a philologian, novelist, poet, and chemist.”
“Alfred de Vigny was preparing his _Eloa_; Nodier was delighting everybody by his talents as a philologian, novelist, poet, and chemist.”
“For an architect ought not to be and cannot be such a philologian as was Aristarchus, although not illiterate; nor a musician like”
“The great theologian Harnack, the sound and accomplished political scientist and economist von Schmoller, the distinguished philologian von Wilamowitz, the well-known historian Lamprecht, the profound statesman von Posadowsky, the brilliant diplomatist von”
“What Sweet did to clear up the history of English pronunciation, 50 and what Wilhelm Crossen did for Latin, no American philologian has yet thought to attempt for American.”
Chapter 2. The Beginnings of American. 6. Colonial Pronunciation
“Etienne Dolet (1509-46), a printer, philologian, and pamphleteer, executed at Paris and looked upon by some as a "martyr of the Renaissance", was a native of Orléans.”
“On his recommendation Peter went in 1645 to Holland to continue his studies, and at the University of Amsterdam, came in contact with many scholars, especially the philologian Gerhard Johann”
“Hermann von Helmholtz, inventor of the opthalmoscope Erwin Rohde, the classical scholar and philologian; and Kuno Fischer, historian of modern philosophy, should be especially mentioned.”
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability
“Other natives of Rennes are the Benedictine Lobineau (1606-1727), famous for his "histoire de la Brétagne" (1707), and the Jesuit philologian Tournemine (1661-1739).”
“Filippo Cecchi; Karl Feyerfeil, mathematician; and Franz Kraus, philologian.”
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