This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:

• Lexulous
• Wordscraper
• Wordosaur

adj. Of or pertaining to the history of literature and words.

adj. Pertaining to historical linguistics.

adj. Of or pertaining to philology.

Relating to or concerned with philology: as, philological study; the American Philological Association.

adj. of or relating to or dealing with philology

"Of literary blunders probably the philological are the most persistent and the most difficult to kill."

philologic   

philology    philologist   

philologically   

anthropological    biographical    archaeological    antiquarian    abstruse    theological    anatomical    sociological    exhaustive    scholastic