philologer
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But Borrow, though an extraordinary linguist, was a somewhat unchastened philologer, and the results of his life-long philological studies appear to much better advantage from the literary than from the scientific point of view.
From Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 by George Saintsbury
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
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
Abu Othman Bakr bin Muhammad bin Habib al-Mayini, briefly called Abu Othman, was celebrated as a philologer and grammarian, as also for his knowledge in general literature.
From Arabic Authors A Manual of Arabian History and Literature by F. F. Arbuthnot
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 Charles Kingsley
