- a variation of philologist.
philologer
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Commend a good divine, he cries postilling; a philologer, pedantry; a poet, rhiming; a school-man, dull wrangling; a sharp conceit, boyishness; an honest man, plausibility.
From Character Writings of the 17th Century by Various
Its king is a brother of Zeus, one Pluto; whose name—so an able philologer assures me—contains a complimentary allusion to his ghostly wealth.
From Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03 by F. G. (Francis George) Fowler
Al-Yazidi, a story of whom I quoted above, was a teacher of Koranic readings, a grammarian and a philologer, who taught in Baghdad in the ninth century.
From A Boswell of Baghdad With Diversions by E. V. (Edward Verrall) Lucas
He was, at one and the same time, a general, a statesman, a lawgiver, a jurist, an orator, a poet, an historian, a philologer, a mathematician, and an architect.
From Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life by T. L. (Thomas Louis) Haines
A very learned English professor crushed an argument in a political discussion, by asking his adversary angrily: 'Are you aware, sir, that I am a philologer?'
From Complete Short Works of George Meredith by George Meredith
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