PHILOLOGY

n.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

Criticism; grammatical learning. [R.] Johnson.

2.
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.

3.
n.

A treatise on the science of language.


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