Definition of "philological" [phil•o•log•ic•al]

• Of or pertaining to the history of literature and words. (adjective)
• Pertaining to historical linguistics. (adjective)

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• "Of literary blunders probably the philological are the most persistent and the most difficult to kill."
• "It has copied, by the aid of the telescope, the trilingual arrow-headed inscriptions written 300 feet high upon the face of the rocks of Behistun; and though the alphabets and the languages in which these long inscriptions were "graven with a pen of iron and lead upon the rocks for ever," had been long dead and unknown, yet, by a kind of philological divination, Archæology has exorcised and resuscitated both; and from these dumb stones, and from the analogous inscriptions of Van,"
• ""philological" proof of the modern origin of one of those authorities, the folio of 1632."