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Webster 1913 Edition
Philologue
Phil′o-logue
,Noun.
[Cf. F.
philologue
.] A philologist.
[R.]
Carlyle.
Definition 2025
philologue
philologue
English
Noun
philologue (plural philologues)
- A philologist.
- 1851 Thomas Carlyle, The Life of John Sterling
- One cannot under any circumstances conceive of Sterling as a steady dictionary philologue, historian, or archaeologist[.]
- 1851 Thomas Carlyle, The Life of John Sterling