Philologize

verb

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Verb
  1. 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 Sycophantis"

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"Nor is it here that I design to enlarge , as those who have philologized on this occasion de Sycophantis"

Etymology

From philology + -ize.

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