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

A curious book on it has lately been published in Trinidad by Mr. Thomas, a coloured gentleman, who seems to be at once no mean philologer and no mean humorist. 

From At Last by Kingsley, Charles

The young philologer tugged at these until he had mastered one or two words.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858 by Various

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

Ibn Duraid, whose many other names are given by Ibn Khallikan, is described by that author as 'the most accomplished scholar, the ablest philologer, and the first poet of the age.'

From Arabic Authors A Manual of Arabian History and Literature by Arbuthnot, F. F.