philologer

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

One cannot under any circumstances conceive of Sterling as a steady dictionary philologue, historian, or archaeologist; nor did he here, nor could he well, attempt that course.

From Life of John Sterling by Carlyle, Thomas

The learned philologue Monaci has established a very remarkable critical text in his Crestomazia italiana dei primi secoli.

From Life of St. Francis of Assisi by Houghton, Louise Seymour

The Lutheran clergy of the three chief churches in Berlin and Cöln, and the Reformed court preachers, Bartholomew Stosch and Johann Kunschius, the rector of the Joachimsthal Gymnasium, and the philologue Joh.

From Paul Gerhardt's Spiritual Songs Translated by John Kelly by Gerhardt, Paul

I walked and walked, till I came here, where I became one philologue and taught tongues—French and Italian. 

From Lavengro The Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest by Knapp, William