Definition of "philologists" [philologists]

• Plural form of philologist. (noun)

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• "Lang's clever attacks on the myth-makers, whom he persistently describes as the philologists -- and they do indeed form part of that camp -- have had the effect of bringing 'philological theories' into sad disrepute with sciolists and 'common-sense' people."
• "Nietzsche clearly saw that the "philologists" (using the word chiefly in reference to the teachers of the classics in German colleges and universities) were absolutely unfitted for their high task, since they were one and all incapable of entering into the spirit of antiquity."
• "As I am generally recommended by philologists, Contemporary New High German is useless for etymological purposes (one has to go back at least as far as Luther to get usable sources)."