philology

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  1. noun Literary study or classical scholarship.
  2. noun See historical linguistics.

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  • Nothing that Mistral has done entitles him in a greater degree to the gratitude of students of Romance philology, and the fact that the work has been done in so masterful a fashion by one who is not first of all a philologist excites our wonder and admiration. —  Frederic Mistral
  • A few years back he had started calling her dottoressa, in tribute to her academic record: a Ph.D. in the history of art, an undergraduate degree in ancient languages, a degree in Italian philology. —  The BROTHERHOOD of the HOLY SHRO
  • This is the foundation of philology, and his understanding of its method and its dangers is the reason of his success in this branch of science. —  The Project Gutenberg eBook of Albert Gallatin, by John Austin Stevens.
  • These bright examples of the attitude of the bourgeois mind toward philology, the drama, politics, and science will throw light upon its breadth of view and powers of comprehension César's wife, who had learned to know her husband's character during the early years of their marriage, led a life of perpetual terror; she represented sound sense and foresight in the partnership; she was doubt, opposition, and fear, while César represented boldness, ambition, activity, the element of chance and undreamed-of good luck. —  The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VII (of X)—Continental Europe I
  • It is probably French in origin because in that language antimoine is a tempting bait for that pseudo-philology which has so often led to false derivations Footnote 31: There is in the New York Academy of Medicine a thick 24mo volume in which three of the classics of older medicine are bound together. —  Old-Time Makers of Medicine The Story of The Students And Teachers of the Sciences Related to Medicine During the Middle Ages
 

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  1. Middle English philologie, from Latin philologia, love of learning, from Greek philologiā, from philologos, fond of learning or of words : philo-, philo- + logos, reason, speech; see -logy.

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  1. Formerly philologie; = Dutch filologie = German philologic = Swedish Danish filologi; from French philologie = Spanish filología = Portuguese philologia, filologia = Italian filologia = Russian filologiya, philology (see def.), from Latin philologia, love of learning and literature (Cicero), explanation and interpretation of writings (Seneca), from Greek φιλολογία, love of dialectic or argument (Plato), love of learning and literature (Isocrates, Aristotle), the study of language and history (Plutarch, etc.), in later use learning in a wide sense; from φιλόλογος, fond of words, talkative (wine was said to make men so) (Plato), fond of speaking (said of an orator) (Plato), fond of dialectic or argument (Plato), fond of learning and literature, literary, studious, learned (Aristotle, Plutarch, etc.); of books, learned, scientific (Cicero), later also studious of words (Plotinus, Proclus, etc.); as a noun, a learned man, student, scholar (see philologue); from φιλεῑν, love, + λόγος, word, speech, discourse, argument: see Logos, and cf.-ology.
 

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