单词 | micrology |
释义 | micrologyn.ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > little importance or triviality > discussion of trivial things micrology1656 1629 R. M. (title) Micrologia. Characters, or Essayes, of Persons, Trades, and Places, offered to the City and Country.] 1656 T. Blount Glossographia Micrologie, curiosity about things of no value; a speaking or treating of petty affairs. 1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Micrology, a Speech that hath neither Words nor Sentences of any moment. 1820 W. Tooke tr. Lucian Lucian of Samosata I. 400 What a parcel of fiddle-faddle and micrology. 1829 I. Taylor Nat. Hist. Enthusiasm ii. 39 The philanthropist..is not found to spend his days and nights in pursuing any such subtile micrologies. 1882 F. W. Farrar Early Days Christianity I. 525 How could one who had never learnt letters,..listen without reverence to that micrology of erudition. 2. = microscopy n. rare. Now historical. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > study > [noun] > biology > branches of biology micrography1658 micrology1848 biostatics1849 electrobiology1849 biotechnics1852 human biology1860 phylogeny1872 developmental biology1877 psychobiology1879 microbiology1880 biokinetics1883 bacteriology1884 geratology1884 thremmatology1888 cell biology1889 biophysics1892 biomechanics1899 pathobiology1900 biometry1901 biometrics1902 metabiology1906 bioenergetics1907 radiobiology1919 biomedicine1922 photobiology1923 virology1935 sociobiology1946 space biology1955 prebiology1963 chronobiology1969 glycobiology1988 1848 W. H. Walshe in Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. IV. 72/1 More has been done to lower than to raise micrology in general estimation by the attempt to make it..the essential and sole groundwork of distinction of organized products. 1907 Amer. Naturalist 41 196 Guyer's Animal Micrology [1906], though burdened with a horrible name, is one of the best and most practical works upon microscopic technique. 1907 Nature 18 Apr. 582/1 The term ‘micrology’ has not received any general acceptance on this side of the Atlantic. 1914 Jrnl. Micrology Jan. 12 Those commencing the study of micrology are advised..to accustom themselves to examine with the microscope..such objects of interest as may present themselves. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2001; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1656 |
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