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n. Literary study or classical scholarship.

n. See historical linguistics.

n. The humanistic study of historical linguistics.

n. Criticism; grammatical learning.

n. The study of language, especially in a philosophical manner and as a science; the investigation of the laws of human speech, the relation of different tongues to one another, and historical development of languages; linguistic science.

n. A treatise on the science of language.

n. The love or the study of learning and literature; the investigation of a language and its literature, or of languages and literatures, for the light they cast upon men's character, activity, and history.

n. the humanistic study of language and literature

"One day a fellow-student, who pleased himself with what he called philology, remarked that his father must have been a hit of a humorist to name him Peregrine: -- "except indeed it be a family name!" he added."

humanistic discipline    arts    humanities    liberal arts   

comparative philology   

lexicology    dialectology   

philologer    philologist   

criticism    linguistic   

ethnology    anthropology    archæology    zoölogy    folklore    jurisprudence    paleontology    philologist    meteorology    geography