philological

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They include a lot of texts, many in complete translations, and provide excellent philological introductions to each text.

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Of or pertaining to the history of literature and words.

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adjective

Of or pertaining to the history of literature and words.

adjective

(linguistics) Pertaining to historical linguistics.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for philological.

adjective

Of or pertaining to the history of literature and words.

adjective

(linguistics) Pertaining to historical linguistics.

Example sentences

They include a lot of texts, many in complete translations, and provide excellent philological introductions to each text.

There could be a number of philological analyses brought to 'mind', but maybe one is already fitting.

Owing to the corrupt forms that thus resulted, many of the formulae are of slight philological interest or value.

Plenty of things can be older than 3400 years if you go by philological theory.

It would be extremely helpful for both groups if there were a test based on philological data that machines could measure.

So English professors move from being primarily philological in nature towards being critics.

That's a work of [philological][1] investigation, and I'd like to see something like that too.

But I guess marketing team is not that found of precision in philological considerations.

Great article, in my Master's and PhD despite being in a stodgy philological field I always opted for this for clarity and conciseness.

Lang found and ruthlessly exposed the logical fallacies in using philological evidence to support the solar theory, turning for his own answers to another new discipline, anthropology.

It seems that lexicologists these days are less likely than formerly to insist that the philological roots of a word are the only determinant of correct spelling.

Mathematical knowledge is no more rigorous than philological-historical knowledge.

Quote examples

The programme thus conforms to an established philological convention.[4] [1] "Luteci" seems to be a rather odd variant indeed.

If it is not, it is because "learning" is _active_, by philological analysis, and happily consistently with an aim of AGI (intelligent entities learn actively).

There used to be an American Philological Association, but they decided to change their name to the "Society for Classical Studies," because most people don't know the word "philology."

The article reads as though he has never heard of, much less read any part of, the OED or "A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles; Founded Mainly on the Materials Collected by The Philological Society".