Antedating of "Linguistic"

[Fred Shapiro]

linguistic (OED 1856)

1827 _Foreign Quarterly Review_ Nov. 377 (Periodicals Archive Online)  To
the science which may be formed by comparing languages, the term
_linguistic_ has been applied by some German authors.

Fred Shapiro


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