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philologise

philologise is the alternative spelling of philologize.

Meaning of philologize

Verb

philologize (third-person singular simple present philologizes, present participle philologizing, simple past and past participle philologized)

  1. To do the work of a philologist, to study words and their origins.
    • Nor is it here that I design to enlarge , as those who have philologized on this occasion de Sycophantis1664, J[ohn] E[velyn], Sylva, or A Discourse of Forest-trees and the Propagation of Timber in His Majesties Dominions. […], London: […] Jo[hn] Martyn, and Ja[mes] Allestry, printers to the Royal...

Forms of philologise

third-person singular presentphilologises
present participlephilologising
past participlephilologised
pastphilologised

Origin of philologise

From philology + -ise.

Questions about philologise

What is philologise the alternative spelling of?
Philologise is the alternative spelling of philologize.

Words near philologise in the dictionary

  1. philologians
  2. philologic
  3. philological
  4. philologically
  5. philologies
  6. philologise
  7. philologised
  8. philologises
  9. philologising
  10. philologist
  11. philologistic

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Adapted from Wiktionary: philologise (page history and authors); philologize (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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