单词 | ography |
释义 | ographyn. A branch of knowledge the name of which ends in -ography. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > branch of knowledge > [noun] craftOE lorec1290 cunning1340 facultyc1384 sciencea1387 intelligencea1393 disciplinea1398 masterya1425 learning1570 skill1570 doctrine1594 ism1680 ology1811 ography1828 sophya1843 osophy1851 1828 First Bk., King's Coll. 15 Your 'ologies and 'ographies..as studies in a College. 1872 Routledge's Every Boy's Ann. 22/1 No one knows how many more ographies and ologies. 1893 Cent. Mag. June 269/1 Well, let us come and put our ologies and ographies and languages ancient and foreign in the post-office. 1969 Current Anthropol. 10 221/1 Politely and patiently they discuss ‘aims’ and ‘goals’ and endless distinctions between -ologies/-ographies—showing an almost morbid prediliction for select nonessentials. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). > see alsoalso refers to : -ographycomb. form < n.1828 see also |
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