22-419: (Redirected from Philsoc ) PHILSOC or variation , may refer to: Philological Society (founded 1842, aka London Philological Society ), a British charity and academic society dedicated to the study of language 2019 Philippine Southeast Asian Games Organizing Committee, for the 2019 Southeast Asian Games 2005 Philippine SEA Games Organising Committee, for
44-675: A philologist by The Study of Words , originally delivered as lectures to the pupils of the Diocesan Training School, Winchester. His stated purpose was to demonstrate that in words, even taken singly, "there are boundless stores of moral and historic truth, and no less of passion and imagination laid up"—an argument which he supported by a number of apposite illustrations. It was followed by two little volumes of similar character— English Past and Present (1855) and A Select Glossary of English Words (1859). All have gone through numerous editions and have contributed much to promote
66-561: A company limited by guarantee, having been incorporated on 2 January 1879. The Society is governed by its trustees, consisting of the President (appointed at an Annual General Meeting for a period of three years, with the option to renew for one further year), the vice-presidents (appointed for life at an Annual General Meeting; usually former presidents), the other Officers, and up to twenty ordinary members of Council, who are elected annually at an Annual General Meeting. As of February 2021,
88-728: Is a member organisation of the University Council of General and Applied Linguistics . The Society's early history is most marked by a proposal in July 1857 to create an up-to-date dictionary of the English language. This proposal, issued by Richard Chenevix Trench , Herbert Coleridge , and Frederick Furnivall , members of the Unregistered Words Committee , and an article by Trench, entitled On Some Deficiencies in our English Dictionaries , eventually led
110-478: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Philological Society The Philological Society , or London Philological Society , is the oldest learned society in Great Britain dedicated to the study of language as well as a registered charity . The current Society was established in 1842 to "investigate and promote the study and knowledge of
132-623: The Irish Church , and, according to Bishop Wilberforce's correspondence, Trench's appointment was favoured by neither the prime minister nor the lord-lieutenant. It was, moreover, unpopular in Ireland, and a blow to English literature ; yet it turned out to be fortunate. Trench could not prevent the disestablishment of the Irish Church, though he resisted with dignity. But, when the disestablished communion had to be reconstituted under
154-537: The Manila 2005 Southeast Asian Games UCD Philosophy Society (founded 1965), at University College Dublin, in Dublin, Ireland See also [ edit ] [REDACTED] Search for "philsoc" or "phil-soc" on Misplaced Pages. All pages with titles containing phil soc All pages with titles containing philsoc phil (disambiguation) SOC (disambiguation) Topics referred to by
176-703: The Officers of the Society are: The following list is based on the sporadically occurring statements concerning membership of the Society's Council as printed in the Transactions of the Philological Society of the relevant years. Richard Chenevix Trench Richard Chenevix Trench (9 September 1807 – 28 March 1886) was an Anglican archbishop and poet. He was born in Dublin , Ireland,
198-521: The Parables of our Lord , and in 1846 his Notes on the Miracles , popular works which are treasuries of erudite and acute illustration. In 1856 Trench became Dean of Westminster Abbey , a position which suited him. Here he introduced evening nave services. In January 1864 he was advanced to the post of Archbishop of Dublin . Arthur Penrhyn Stanley had been the first choice, but was rejected by
220-413: The Society awards the R. H. Robins Prize for an article on a subject within the Society's area of interest; the prize bears the name of a former president of the Society. Every year, the Society further awards a limited number of bursaries valued at up to £15,000 each to students embarking on taught postgraduate programmes in all areas of linguistics or philology. The Society is a registered charity and
242-652: The Society hosted the seventh Congress of the International Congress of Linguists in London. At a later date, the Society was instrumental in the early stages of the Survey of English Dialects conducted by Harold Orton between 1950 and 1961, helping to develop, amongst other things, a questionnaire for use in gathering data. The society holds seven regular meetings each academic year; traditionally, four take place in London at SOAS University of London ,
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#1732780921366264-531: The Society to formally adopt the idea of creating a comprehensive new dictionary on 7 January 1858. Coleridge, and later Furnivall, led the project by compiling quotations, submitted by volunteer readers, illustrating the usage of words. In 1879, Oxford University Press agreed to publish the dictionary which would become known as the Oxford English Dictionary , with Society member James Murray being appointed editor that year. In 1952,
286-626: The deanery of Westminster Abbey in 1845 he was presented to the rectory of Itchenstoke . In 1845 and 1846 he preached the Hulsean lecture , and in the former year was made examining chaplain to Wilberforce, now Bishop of Oxford . He was shortly afterwards appointed to a theological chair at King's College London . Trench joined the Canterbury Association on 27 March 1848, on the same day as Samuel Wilberforce and Wilberforce's brother Robert . In 1851 he established his fame as
308-489: The dictionary, he expressed his vision thus: it would be 'an entirely new Dictionary; no patch upon old garments, but a new garment throughout'. His advocacy of a revised translation of the New Testament (1858) helped promote another great national project. In 1856 he published a valuable essay on Calderón , with a translation of a portion of Life is a Dream in the original metre. In 1841 he published his Notes on
330-703: The greatest difficulties, it was important that the occupant of his position should be a man of a liberal and genial spirit. This was the work of the remainder of Trench's life; it exposed him at times to considerable abuse, but he came to be appreciated, and, when in November 1884 he resigned his archbishopric because of poor health, clergy and laity unanimously recorded their sense of his "wisdom, learning, diligence, and munificence." He had found time for Lectures on Medieval Church History (1878); his poetical works were rearranged and collected in two volumes (last edition, 1885). From 1872 and during his successor's incumbency
352-476: The historical study of the English tongue. Another great service to English philology was rendered by his paper, read before the Philological Society , On some Deficiencies in our English Dictionaries (1857), which gave the first impulse to the great Oxford English Dictionary . Trench envisaged a totally new dictionary that was a " lexicon totius Anglicitatis ". As one of the three founders of
374-631: The other three in Cambridge , Oxford , and at another university outside of South East England. Most meetings consist of hour-long academic papers being presented by one or more scholar. Occasionally, round table or panel discussions are organised. Every two years, together with the British Academy the Society organises the Anna Morpurgo Davies Lecture, named in honour of its former president. Once every two years,
396-544: The post of Dean of Christ Church, Dublin was held with the archbishopric. He died on 28 March 1886 at Eaton Square , London after a lingering illness, and was buried at Westminster Abbey . George W. E. Russell described Trench as "a man of singularly vague and dreamy habits" and recounted the following anecdote of his old age: He once went back to pay a visit to his successor, Lord Plunket . Finding himself back again in his old palace, sitting at his old dinner table, and gazing across it at his wife, he lapsed in memory to
418-411: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title PHILSOC . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=PHILSOC&oldid=1009398412 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
440-542: The son of Richard Trench (1774–1860), barrister-at-law, and the Dublin writer Melesina Chenevix (1768–1827). His elder brother was Francis Chenevix Trench . He went to school at Harrow , went up to Trinity College, Cambridge , and graduated in 1829. In 1830 he visited Spain. While incumbent of Curdridge Chapel near Bishop's Waltham in Hampshire, he published (1835) The Story of Justin Martyr and Other Poems , which
462-531: The structure, the affinities, and the history of languages ". The society publishes a journal, the Transactions of the Philological Society , issued three times a year as well as a monographic series . The first Philological Society, based in London's Fitzroy Square , was founded in 1792 under the patronage of Thomas Collingwood of St Edmund Hall, Oxford . Its publication was titled The European Magazine, and London Review . The Philological Society
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#1732780921366484-558: Was favourably received, and was followed in 1838 by Sabbation, Honor Neale, and other Poems , and in 1842 by Poems from Eastern Sources . These volumes revealed the author as the most gifted of the immediate disciples of Wordsworth , with a warmer colouring and more pronounced ecclesiastical sympathies than the master, and strong affinities to Alfred Lord Tennyson , John Keble and Richard Monckton Milnes . In 1841 he resigned his living to become curate to Samuel Wilberforce , then rector of Alverstoke , and upon Wilberforce's promotion to
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