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  • Of or pertaining to philology, or the study of language: as, philologic learning.

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  • adjective philological

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Compare French philologique.

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Examples

  • They waited curiously while the ship slowly receded from sight, trailing a philologic wake of insult behind it.

    A Corridor in the Asylum 2010

  • From 1810, the philologic-historical approach begins its rise to dominance, again first in Germany.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas BURTON FELDMAN 1968

  • Heyne's is perhaps the first important scholarly effort to separate myth from poetry on a rigorous philologic basis.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas BURTON FELDMAN 1968

  • Romanti - cism contributes importantly to this change, first by stimulating philologic research, and next by revealing its own assumptions as vulnerable to philological criti - cism.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas BURTON FELDMAN 1968

  • This is the best thing philosophic and philologic unbelief has to offer, the most rational account it has to give in the year 1864.

    Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various

  • For this reason I am not at all anxious to take sides in the struggle between the followers of the classical philologic-historical education and the education more devoted to natural science.

    Out Of My Later Years Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955 1950

  • Had preparation in question depended for its motive merely on considerations of the texts 'philologic interest or value it would, to speak frankly, never have been undertaken.

    Life of St. Declan of Ardmore and Life of St. Mochuda of Lismore Anonymous

  • Not much of it, outside of his philologic studies, deserves to be called literary, and even they often fall below the mark on account of the simplicity of his views, and especially on account of his prolixity and his awkward diction and style.

    The Renascence of Hebrew Literature (1743-1885) Nahum Slouschz 1919

  • He himself wrote a treatise on mathematics, and philologic research was a favorite occupation with him.

    The Renascence of Hebrew Literature (1743-1885) Nahum Slouschz 1919

  • Had preparation in question depended for its motive merely on considerations of the texts 'philologic interest or value it would, to speak frankly, never have been undertaken.

    Lives of SS Declan and Mochuda Anonymous 1914

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