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orthology rare.|ɔːˈθɒlədʒɪ|
[ad. Gr. ὀρθολογία correctness of language, f. *ὀρθολόγος speaking correctly, f. ὀρθό-ς + -λόγος speaking. So mod.F. orthologie.]
Correct speaking; that part of grammar which deals with the correct use of words.
a1619M. Fotherby Atheom. ii. xiii. §1 (1622) 346 The natural, and as it were the homogeneal, parts of grammar be two; orthology, and orthography:..orthology..teaching men the right imposition of names. 1884A. J. Patterson in 13th Addr. Philol. Soc. 42 The struggle between the respective partizans of ‘orthology’ and ‘neology’.
So orˈthologer, orthologian |ɔːθəʊˈləʊdʒɪən|, one who speaks correctly, or who treats of the correct use of words; orthoˈlogical a., relating to correct speaking.
1844L. A. J. Mordacque (title) French Orthologer: or Complete Course of Theory and Practice on the French Language. 1884A. J. Patterson in 13th Addr. Philol. Soc. 43 Even at the outset of Kazinczy's career as a ‘neologian’, there was an opposition on the part of those who called themselves ‘orthologians’. 1873Forster Life of Dickens II. 241 Victims of orthological impropriety. |