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-ology, ology, suffix and quasi-n.|ˈɒlədʒɪ|
1. suffix. The form in which the suffix -logy (Gr. -λογία) usually occurs in words derived from Gr., the ο belonging etymologically to the prec. element (see -o); hence the form of the suffix in modern formations, often sportive nonce-words.
1803Fessenden Terrible Tractoration i. (ed. 2) 18 note, Sublime discoveries in the abstruse sciences of insect-ology, mite-ology and nothing-ology. 1805J. Lawrence Treat. Cattle (1809) 495 The contemplation, either of physiology, or commonsensology.
2. quasi-n. Any one of the various sciences or departments of science. Also 'ology.
1811E. Nares Thinks-I-to-myself (ed. 5) I. 68 She..was therefore supposed to understand Chemistry, Geology, Philology, and a hundred other ologies. 1823Edin. Rev. XXXVIII. 420 This is the Ology of the day. 1854Dickens Hard T. ii. ix. 236 Ologies of all kinds, from morning to night. If there is any Ology left..that has not been worn to rags in this house..I hope I shall never hear its name. 1866Carlyle Inaug. Addr. 189 Maid-servants, I hear people complaining, are getting instructed in the ‘ologies’. 1884J. Robertson Univ. Serm. in Cambr. Rev. 5 Nov. Suppl. p. xxvi/1 The full shock of each new ‘ology’. 1886Kipling Departm. Ditties (ed. 2) 57 And after—ask the Yusufzaies What comes of all our 'ologies. 1927G. D. H. & M. Cole Murder at Crome House iv. 42 ‘I don't think she's interested in anything except some 'ology—’ ‘Psychology, I think, sir,’ said Johnson. 1972C. L. Cooper in W. King Black Short Story Anthol. 237 With Famat's help,..I came to grasp an ology that was an intermixture of Ax, orthodox Islam, and theory. 1976A. Price War Game i. ix. 172 One's doing a thesis on geology now, and the other's writing a book on meteorology. Ology is about the only thing they have in common.
So oˈlogical, oloˈgistic, a. nonce-wds., of, pertaining to, or versed in the ‘ologies’; -ˈologist, ˈologist, a student or professor of an ‘ology’.
1834–43Southey Doctor cxxxix. (1848) 348/2 Not so for the scientific in gooseberries, the gooseberryologists. 1839New Monthly Mag. LV. 444 We have eight or nine ologists of different sorts staying with us. 1854Dickens Hard T. i. xv. 120, I hope you may now turn all your ological studies to good account. a1861Clough Uranus 25 Chaldean mumblings vast, with gossip light From modern ologistic fancyings mixed. 1890Pall Mall G. 14 Mar. 6/1 Mr. C. is rising forty, amiable, and ‘ological’. That is, he goes in hot for the ‘ologies’. 1896Westm. Gaz. 1 July 2/2 Every feature of the face..has long before now been made an ‘index to character’ by ‘ologists’ of various persuasions. |