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† pyroˈballogy Obs.
[Altered from pyrobology, after Gr. βάλλειν, to throw.]
The study of the art of casting fire, i.e. of artillery.
1738[see pyrobology, quot. 1728]. 1759Sterne Tr. Shandy ii. iii, He was enabled, by the help of..Gobesius's military architecture and pyroballogy, translated from the Flemish, to form his discourse with passable perspicuity. |