philologer
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The allurement of his genius is such that the etymologist shall leave his roots and the philologer his Maeso-Gothic to take to the highway and dwell in the dingle with “Don Jorge.”
From Isopel Berners The History of certain doings in a Staffordshire Dingle, July, 1825 by Thomas Seccombe
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 An Essay on comedy and the uses of the comic spirit by George Meredith
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
"Had Carlyle turned his mind to it he would have been a great philologer."
From Thomas Carlyle by John Nichol
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