humorologyn.

1835 R. Southey Doctor III. 340 The reasons assigned in support of this pluri-personal hypothesis are, first, the supposed discrepancy of humour and taste apparent in the different parts of the book. Oh men ignorant of humorology! more ignorant of psychology! and most ignorant of Pantagruelism!

1837 Fraser's Mag. 16 664/1 Of humorology, psychology, Pantagruelism..we shall dissertate hereafter.

1952 E. Esar Humor of Humor 8 I venture to call the science of humor humorology, and to define it as the branch of knowledge that investigates the nature or humor of humor through its essential properties and their relations, like the many varieties of comic sayings.

1959 Harper's Mag. 1 Oct. 35 There is little surcease from the relentless sequence of Homecoming (floats and parades), Humorology (skits), Campus Carnival,..and parties.

1976 Fortnight 10 Sept. 15/2 The author's claim was a new and scientific approach to humour, which approach he christened ‘Humorology’.

1984 Art Educ. 37 ii. 37/2 It is in this vein that Ogden Nash..offered his own contribution to humorology.

2006 K. E. Brown et al. Encycl. Lang. & Linguistics (ed. 2) V. 428/1 More recent work in stylistic humorology has sought to address both sides, the stimulus and the response side, of the humor event.

1844 Medico-chirurg. Rev., & Jrnl. Pract. Med. 41 115 There is also some speculation in this chapter, and a great deal of transcendental humorology, far in advance of practical medicine of the present day.

1918 Independent 13 July 64/3 He explains the rise and fall of phrenology, humorology, astrology and animal magnetism.

1975 Acta Sociologica 18 7 They [sc. the Greeks] could therefore go on to describe, in a medical way (cf. their humorology), the state of health.

2001 M. Cassidy-Welch Monastic Spaces & Meanings v. 157 Humourology provides the basis for understanding anatomy and the relationship between body and cosmos.