Crossword clues for philologue
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Philologue \Phil"o*logue\, n. [Cf. F. philologue.]
A philologist. [R.]
--Carlyle.
Wiktionary
n. A philologist.
WordNet
n. a humanist specializing in classical scholarship [syn: philologist]
Usage examples of "philologue".
The philologue, the historian of to-day, of his nature an archaiser, feels, in presence of this formidable fact, almost as puzzled as Caesar or Tacitus when they tried to indicate in Roman terminology the nature of those incipient States, transalpine, further Rhine, or Spanish.
The philologue is one who, to be a philologue, requires the existence of the past.
Do we not discover here the vice of all the tribe of philologues, of record-searchers, the professional optical defect which prevents them from recognising reality unless it is past?
Happily, the idea of the national State which the European, consciously or not, brought into the world, is not the pedantic idea of the philologues which has been preached to him.