philological
IPA: fɪɫʌɫˈɑdʒɪkʌɫ
adjective
- Of or pertaining to the history of literature and words.
- (linguistics) Pertaining to historical linguistics.
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Examples of "philological" in Sentences
- And then adduce philological and dating evidence to prove it ...
- "philological" proof of the modern origin of one of those authorities, the folio of 1632.
- Of literary blunders probably the philological are the most persistent and the most difficult to kill.
- Solesmes never understood this, but we should recognize the learned and large philological work executed on the old manuscripts.
- Anthropologist Kenneth Kennedy concludes of Gobineau and Chamberlain, that they "transformed the Aryan concept, which had its humble origins in philological research conducted by Jones in Calcutta at the end of the eighteenth century, into the politics and racial doctrines of Adolph Hitler's Third Reich."
- According to most of the philological authorities, it denotes "dried clay that emits a sound" (i.e., when it is struck); and since it is used in the Quran exclusively with reference to the creation of man, it seems to contain an allusion to the power of articulate speech which distinguishes man from all other animal species, as well as to the brittleness of his existence (cf. the expression "like pottery" in 55:14).
- 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,
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