rare. [f. LINGUIST + -RY.] Study of language.
1794. T. Paine, Age of Reason, I. 33. But the apology that is now made for continuing to teach the dead languages, could not be the cause at first of cutting down learning to the narrow and humble sphere of linguistry.
1853. G. J. Cayley, Las Alforjas, II. 246. To bring down their estimate of my linguistry, I gave them a literal translation of that proverb which defines comparisons as odious.
