Philologistic

adj

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Adjective
  1. 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."

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philologicphilological

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"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."

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