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philologistic

philologistic adjective: of or pertaining to philology.

Adjective

philologistic (comparative more philologistic, superlative most philologistic)

  1. Of or pertaining to philology.
    • It is one of the Washington-sized glories of our country that such a lifework as that Dictionary should have been done among us. It has gathered the broken columns of the other philologistic temples of our language, and built them into an American Parthenon.1858, N.P.Willis, The American Almanac and Repository of Useful Knowledge, Gray and Bowen
    • The time is slowly passing away in which acetanilid, soda bicarbonate and caffeine can be thrown together by different firms and successfully presented to the profession as a new drug — the new name varying with the philologistic knowledge of the manufacturer.1906, anonymous author, Washington Medical Annals

Synonyms of philologistic

Forms of philologistic

comparativemore philologistic
superlativemost philologistic

Questions about philologistic

What does philologistic mean?
Philologistic means of or pertaining to philology.
What part of speech is philologistic?
Philologistic is an adjective.

Words near philologistic in the dictionary

  1. philologise
  2. philologised
  3. philologises
  4. philologising
  5. philologist
  6. philologistic
  7. philologists
  8. philologize
  9. philologized
  10. philologizes
  11. philologizing

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