0 relating to the study of language, especially its history and development:
His philological work focused on the lexis, pronunciation, and orthography of English.
High school had provided him with excellent philological skills.
Most of what we know is based on traditional philological research, with literary texts as data.
Electronic scholarship and editing necessarily draw their primary models from longstanding philological practices in language study, textual scholarship, and bibliography.
They are well advised to leave philological matters alone.
Previously it had been customary to write monographs restricted to a single analytical, philological or historical perspective.
Philosophy, in short, was becoming an object for historical and philological studies.
Here was on offer a supremely confident philological and mathematical analysis of the contents of ancient theories - and so, what more could have been said?
