word-anatomists

Updated: January 17, 2026

In fact, our exegetists are mostly pitiful schoolmasters word-anatomists and one could as little learn the true spirit of an old classic poet from our pedantic philologists, as the true sense of holy Scripture from our scholastic theologians.

Wilhelm Meinhold - Sidonia, the Sorceress : the Supposed Destroyer of the Whole Reigning Ducal House of Pomerania — Volume 1