[f. as if ad. Gr. *αἰγυπτολογία, f. Αἰγυπτός Egypt + -λογία discoursing (see -LOGY).] The study of Egyptian antiquities, of the ancient Egyptian language and history. Hence Egyptologer = EGYPTOLOGIST. Egyptological a., pertaining to, concerned with, or devoted to Egyptology. Egyptologist, one versed in the study of Egyptian antiquities.
1859. Gregory, Egypt, I. 37. The name Sesortesen … recent Egyptologists are … unanimous in maintaining.
1862. Sat. Rev., 8 Feb., 162. Egyptology, he [Sir George Lewis] says, has an historical method of its own.
1864. Piazzi Smyth, Our Inher. Gt. Pyramid, V. xxii. (1874), 418. By the sadly Egyptological Baron Bunsen.
1873. Geikie, Gt. Ice Age, ii. 14. Hieroglyphics are to the Ægyptologist—the silent … records of an age long passed away.
1876. Gladstone, Homeric Synchr., 210. The key afforded by the researches of Egyptology.
1876. Trans. Victoria Inst., 22. The historical discoveries of the earlier Egyptologers were for a time arrayed against Revelation.
1882. Academy, No. 513. 150/1. Mr. Oliphant so modestly disclaims all Egyptological pretensions.
