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micrological, a.|maɪkrəʊˈlɒdʒɪkəl| [f. micrology + -ical.] 1. Characterized by minuteness of investigation or discussion.
1879O. W. Holmes Motley §7. 53 He [sc. Balzac] is..a micrological, misanthropical, sceptical philosopher. 2. Of or pertaining to the study of minute objects; belonging to micrology 2.
1847Todd's Cycl. Anat. IV. 71 The existing impulse towards micrological study. Hence microˈlogically adv.
1872Lowell Milton Prose Wks. (1890) IV. 88 note, If things are to be scanned so micrologically, what weighty inferences might not be drawn from [etc.]. |