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What does philological mean?

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Adjective
  1. Of or pertaining to the history of literature and words.
  2. (linguistics) Pertaining to historical linguistics.
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Written in admirably clear Latin, it is a typical humanistic work in its classical quotations and references and historical and philological discussions.
He never learnt Irish and his philological arguments tended to invoke specious homophones and improbable etymologies.
In this period he combined philological studies with the composition of poetry in Latin and Italian.
Kmoskó, although a theologian like his predecessors, had an excellent philological formation.
This is not the place to go into all the historical or philological explanations which have been put forward to justify this name.
But one who has perused the philological biography of ahi already given, vol.

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