- (n.) Criticism; grammatical learning.
- (n.) The study of language, especially in a philosophical manner and as a science; the investigation of the laws of human speech, the relation of different tongues to one another, and historical development of languages; linguistic science.
- (n.) A treatise on the science of language.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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