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philologue rare.|ˈfɪləlɒg| Also 7 -log, -loge. [a. F. philologue (Rabelais 16th c.), ad. L. philolog-us man of letters, a. Gr. ϕιλόλογ-ος: see philology.] = philologist. Also attrib. or adj. (quot. 1611) = philological.
1594R. Ashley tr. Loys le Roy 110 b, Philologves or serchers of antiquitie, and proprietie of tongues. 1611Chapman Paneg. Verses to Coryat's Crudities, To the Philologe Reader. 1646Gillespie Malè Audis A iij, Great philologs will tell him that maledico is taken in a good sense as well as in a bad. 1653Urquhart Rabelais Prol. (Rtldg.) 17 Homer,..the paragon of all philologues. 1851Carlyle Sterling i. iv. (1872) 29 One cannot..conceive of Sterling as a steady dictionary philologue. 1862R. G. Latham Elem. Comp. Philol. ii. i. 704 The effect of some philological force which it is the business of philologues to elucidate. |