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philological, a.|fɪləʊˈlɒdʒɪkəl|
[f. as prec. + -al1.]
Of, pertaining to, concerned with, or devoted to the study of, philology (in the wider or, now usually, the restricted sense: see philology).
1621Bp. R. Montagu Diatribæ 9 You are much vpon the by, to bring in your Philologicall obseruations. 1659Bp. Walton Consid. Considered 230 Though the controversy [about the Hebrew points] be in itself grammatical, or philological, yet it had its rise from a question theological. 1741Watts Improv. Mind i. xx. §26 Those studies which are wont to be called philological, such as history, language, grammar, rhetoric, poesy, and criticism. 1797Monthly Mag. III. 486 The Philological Society, at Bath, for educating and placing out the sons of poor clergymen and mechanics (instituted in 1792). 1832(title) Philological Museum [Contents of Vol. I] On the names of the Days of the Week. On the number of Dramas ascribed to Sophocles. On the early Ionic Philosophers. 1842Proc. Philol. Soc. I. 7 The author considered the adoption of an improved system of orthography by the Editors of the Philological Journal (Camb. 1832) an example worthy of imitation on the part of the Philological Society. 1851D. Wilson Preh. Ann. (1863) II. iv. i. 185 Philological relations traceable between Cymri and Gael.
Hence philoˈlogically adv., in accordance with or in relation to philology.
1622Peacham Compl. Gent. (1661) 263 See learned Hieron⁓Mercurialis in his books De Arte Gymnastica: where this matter is fully handled, both Physically..and Philologically. 1794Mathias Purs. Lit. (1798) 332 There is no passage..which will not at last admit of such an illustration or explanation, I mean philologically or critically, as may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men. 1884H. D. Traill in Macm. Mag. Oct. 442/1, I have never yet met a man..who was philologically qualified for a seat on the bench. |