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onomatology rare.|ˌəʊnɒməˈtɒlədʒɪ, ˌɒnəʊmə-|
[mod. f. Gr. type *ὀνοµατολογία, f. ὀνοµατολόγος word-gathering: cf. F. onomatologie (Littré).]
The science of the formation of names or terms; terminology. Hence onomatoˈlogical a.
1847in Webster. 1919W. De Morgan Old Madhouse 324 He therefore endeavoured to bring back the discussion from the onomatologies into which it had strayed. 1931Times Lit. Suppl. 1 Oct. 747/2 ‘Onomatology’, the ugly name which Mr. Ewen gives to this kind of research, is not an exact science. 1961Brno Studies in English III. 10 Their conception of the opposition of analysis vs. synthesis is so wide as to include differences of lexical (more specifically onomatological) order. |