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单词 ography
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ographyn.

Brit. /ˈɒɡrəfi/, U.S. /ˈɑɡrəfi/
Forms: 1800s– ography, 1800s– 'ography, 1900s– -ography.
Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: -ography comb. form.
Etymology: < -ography comb. form.
A branch of knowledge the name of which ends in -ography.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > branch of knowledge > [noun]
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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).

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