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Definition of Etymologising
1. etymologise [v] - See also: etymologise
Lexicographical Neighbors of Etymologising
Literary usage of Etymologising
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Bacchae of Euripides by Euripides (1900)
"... and, being in the etymologising vein, wished to make out an affinity between
... The etymologising in v. ..."
2. The Troades of Euripides: with revision of text and notes chiefly intended by Euripides, Robert Yelverton Tyrrell (1882)
"... lewdness,' are found in 'Афро-Sт) is made the theme of an etymologising passage
which reminds us of Bacch. 286 ff. It will be seen at once that ..."
3. Two of the Saxon Chronicles Parallel: With Supplementary Extracts from the by John Earle, Charles Plummer (1899)
"His biographers are fond of etymologising his name ' montanus lapis,' to indicate
the immovable firmness of his nature, Stubbs, u. .v. pp. ..."
4. Transactions of the Philological Society by Philological Society (Great Britain). (1888)
"... or that Semitic words were subjected to the same kind of etymologising as the
words of English« or Latin in the dictionaries of the last century. ..."
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