hippologicaladj.
/ˌhɪpəˈlɒdʒᵻkl/, U.S. /ˌhɪpəˈlɑdʒək(ə)l/ Of or relating to the breeding, training, management, etc., of horses; dealing or concerned with hippology.Now chiefly in historical contexts.
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hippological1777
the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > [adjective] > having to do with horses
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1777 tr. J. J. Rutledge Englishman's Fortnight in Paris ix. 154 I took a fourth share of F**'s enormous bet.., inspired by his Hippological sagacity [Fr. sa sagacité hippologique], if I may be allowed the expression.
1862 Evening Herald 26 June 6/2 Connoisseurs of hippological matters have told me that the Russian horses..cannot vie with true and pure English racers.
1894 Athenæum 1 Sept. 285/1 [Capt. Hayes] an author of renown in the field of hippodamous and hippological literature.
1911 Howitzer (U.S. Mil. Acad.) 58/2 Almost daily did we hear him deliver masterly extemporaneous treatises on horses, riding, and all things equine or hippological.
1971 Hist. Relig. 11 174 The image of Athena Hippia in Corinth seems..to be intimately related to the invention of a more effective bit and the development of hippological lore.
2010 P. F. Cuneo in L. Silver & J. C. Smith Essent. Dürer vii. 127 Many of the sixteenth-century hippological tracts on the training of horses justify their publication by emphasizing the usefulness of such training for the warhorse.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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