philologer

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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 Meredith, George

It was this sentimental hint that gave a reasonable hope of taking her mind off the runes, and the harassed philologer set himself resolutely to the task.

From The Collectors by Mather, Frank Jewett

He was at one and the same time a general, a statesman, a lawgiver, a jurist, an orator, a poet, a historian, a philologer, a mathematician, and an architect.

From A Smaller History of Rome by Smith, William, Sir

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 Haines, T. L. (Thomas Louis)

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 Lucas, E. V. (Edward Verrall)