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philological

[ UK /fˌɪləlˈɒd‍ʒɪkə‍l/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. of or relating to or dealing with philology

How To Use philological In A Sentence

  • It owns self characteristic. We can research a textbook from historical, pedagogical, sociological, ethnological and philological latitudes.
  • He never learnt Irish and his philological arguments tended to invoke specious homophones and improbable etymologies.
  • It has copied, by the aid of the telescope, the trilingual arrow-headed inscriptions written 300 feet high upon the face of the rocks of Behistun; and though the alphabets and the languages in which these long inscriptions were "graven with a pen of iron and lead upon the rocks for ever," had been long dead and unknown, yet, by a kind of philological divination, Archæology has exorcised and resuscitated both; and from these dumb stones, and from the analogous inscriptions of Van, Archaeological Essays, Vol. 1
  • Seventy years ago, the Philological Society had resolved to publish a completely new English dictionary.
  • If so, have they not been struck with a philological mania, on seeing his picture of the Kutchin-Kutcha Indians dancing; in which the principal performer is actually figuring in the midst of the wild circle in the way described. Notes and Queries, Number 231, April 1, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
  • Written in admirably clear Latin, it is a typical humanistic work in its classical quotations and references and historical and philological discussions.
  • Dr. Latham has ever earnestly and successfully insisted on the _disciplinal_ character of grammatical studies in general, combined with the fact, that the grammatical study of one's own language is exclusively so; and having established this theory, he has, by the production of various elementary works, exhibiting a happy combination of great philological acquirements with the ability to apply them in a logical and systematic manner, enabled those who shared his views to put that theory into practice. Notes and Queries, Number 52, October 26, 1850 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc
  • strath" or "dale" -- presents insurmountable philological difficulties to its identification with Gwen; the L and G, or GW not being interchangeable. Archaeological Essays, Vol. 1
  • Solesmes never understood this, but we should recognize the learned and large philological work executed on the old manuscripts. Interview with Domenico Bartolucci
  • But what I have already said will perhaps suffice to show to genuine philological students that a language which, preserving so many of the roots in the aboriginal form, and clearing from the immediate, but transitory, polysynthetical stage so many rude incumbrances, s from popular ignorance into that popular passion or ferocity which precedes its decease, as (to cite illustrations from the upper world) during the The Coming Race
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