THE CENTURY DICTIONARY. An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language. Prepared under the superintendence of William Dwight Whitney, Ph. D., LL. D. Professor of Comparative Philology and Sanskrit in Yale University. Published by The Century Co., New York, 1904, v. VI, p. 4444.
philologer (fi-lol'o-jer), n. [< philolog-y + -er¹. Cf. philologue] Same as philologist, and formerly in more common use.
philologian (fil-o-lo'ji-an), n. [ < philology + -an] same as philologist.
philologic (fil-o-loj'ik), a. [= F. philologique = Sp. filológico = Pg. filológico = It. filologico (cf. D. philologisch = Sw. Dan. filologisk), < MGr. , pertaining to philology or learning, < Gr. , philology. learning: see philology.] Of or pertaining to philology, or the study of language: as, philologic learning.
philological (fil-o-loj'i-kal) a. [ < philologic + -al.] Relating to or concerned with philology: as, philological study; the American Philological Association.
philologically (fil-o-loj'i-kal-i), adv. In a philological manner; as regards philology.
philologist (fi-lol' o-jist), n. [ philolog-y + -ist ] One who is versed in philology. Also philologer, philologian, philologue.
     "Learn' d philologists, who chase
     A panting syllable through time and space."
                                               Cowper, Retirement, I. 691.
philologize (fi-lol'o-jiz), v. i.; pret. and pp. philologized, ppr. philologizing. [< philolog-y + -ize.] To discuss questions relating to philology.
     "Nor is it here that we design to enlarge, as those who have philologized on this occasion.
                                                        Evelyn.
philologue (fil'o-log), n. [= D. filoloog = G. philolog = Sw. Dan. filolog, < F. philologue = Sp. filólogo = Pg. philologo, filólogo = It. filologo = Russ. filologu, a philologist; < L. philologus, a man of letters, a scholar; as adj., studious of letters, versed in learning, scholarly; < Gr. , a learned man, student, scholar; prop. adj. fond of learning and literature, etc.: see philology.] Same as philologist.
           "This is the fittest and most proper hour wherein to write these high matters and deep sentences, as Homer knew very well, the paragon of all philologues."
                                         Urquhart, tr. of Rabelais, i., Author's Prol. (Davies.)
          "The combination ... was and is a fact in language; and its evolution was the effect of some philological force which it is the business of philologues to elucidate."
                                       Latham, Elements of Comparative Philology, ii, 1, 2.

philology (fi-lol'o-ji), n. [formerly philologie; = D. filologie = G. philologie = SW. Dan. filologi; = < F. philologie=Sp. filologĦa = Pg. filologia = It. filologia = Russ. filologyia, philology (see. def.), < L. philologia, love of learning and literature (Cicero), explanation and interpretation of writings (Seneca), < Gr. , love of dialectic or argument (Plato), love of learning and literature (Isocrates, Aristotle), the study of language and history (Plutarch, etc.), in later use learning in a wide sense; < , fond of words, talkative (wine was said to make men so) (Plato), fond of speaking (said of an orator) (Plato), fond of dialectic or argument (Plato), fond of learning and literature, literary, studious, learned (Aristotle, Plutarch, etc.); of books, learned, scientific (Cicero), later also studious of words (Plotinus, Proclus, etc.); as a noun, a learned man, student, scholar (see philologue); < , love, + , word, speech, discourse, argumment: see Logos, and cf. -ology.] The love or the study of learning and literature; the investigation of a language and its literature, or of languages and literatures, for the light they cast upon men's character, activity, and history. The word is sometimes used more specially of the study of literary and other records, as distinguished from that of language, which is called linguistics; often, on the other hand, of the study of language or languages. See quotation under comparative philology, below.
          "Philology ..... deals with human speech and with all that speech discloses as to the nature and history of man."
                      Whitney, Encyc. Brit. XVIII, 765.