philologize
English
Verb
philologize (third-person singular simple present philologizes, present participle philologizing, simple past and past participle philologized)
- To study, or make critical comments on, language.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for philologize in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)