philologist

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He was held to be of the first authority as a philologist, a genealogist, and a relator of the poems and battle-lays of the desert Arabs.

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  1. One who is versed in philology. Also philologer, philologian, philologue. Learn'd philologists, who chase A panting syllable through time and space. Couper, Retirement, l. 691.

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  • Of the numerous members, Wilhelm Thomsen the philologist was certainly the most prominent, and the only one whom I later on came to value, that is, for purely personal reasons; in daily association it was only once in a way that Thomsen could contribute anything from his special store of knowledge. —  Recollections Of My Childhood And Youth
  • He may have used the word philologist somewhat loosely on occasion. —  The Life of George Borrow
  • This word would puzzle a German philologist, as being the origin of Nussewa, but the Waiyau pronounce it Losewa, the Arabs Lussewa, and Roscher's servant transformed the L and e into N and ee , hence Nusseewa. —  The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume I
  • I could talk to a philologist, and I fancy that I could tell him much that would interest him; but I never wrote anything beyond a report in my life, and it is labour and grief to me to write them—I can't get on as a scribe at all. —  Life of John Coleridge Patteson
  • The patron, philologist, and social researcher Jan Philipp Reemtsma considers the limits of press liberties vis-a-vis news reports on crime victims - even when they agree to be on television. —  signandsight.com
 

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