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micrology|maɪˈkrɒlədʒɪ|
[ad. Gr. µῑκρολογία, f. µῑκρό-ς small + -λογία: see -logy. Cf. F. micrologie.]
1. The discussion or investigation of trivial things or petty affairs; ‘hair-splitting’.
1656Blount Glossogr., Micrologie, curiosity about things of no value; a speaking or treating of petty affairs. 1727in Bailey vol. II. 1820 W. Tooke tr. Lucian I. 400 What a parcel of fiddle-faddle and micrology. 1829I. Taylor Enthus. ii. (1867) 35 The philanthropist..is not found to spend his nights and days in pursuing any such subtile micrologies. 1882Farrar Early Chr. I. 525 How could one who had never learnt letters,..listen without reverence to that micrology of erudition.
2. (Properly a distinct word formed after microscope.) That part of science which depends upon the use of the microscope; a treatise on microscopic animals and plants.
1849in Craig. 1906M. F. Guyer (title) Animal micrology. 1907Nature 18 Apr. 582/1 The term ‘micrology’ has not received any general acceptance on this side of the Atlantic. 1914(title) Journal of micrology. |