philologer

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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)

When a Western philologer asserts that writing did not exist before a certain period, we assume that he has some approximate certitude as to its real invention.

From Five Years of Theosophy by Various

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 Seccombe, Thomas

Why should he not make a philologer and a professor the author of the Homeric poems?

From Homer's Odyssey A Commentary by Snider, Denton Jaques

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