a1620 M. Fotherby Atheomastix (1622) ii. xiii. §1. 346 The naturall, and, as it were, the homogeneall parts of Grammer, be two, Orthology, and Orthography..Orthology..teaching men the right imposition of names.

1779 H. Cowley Who's the Dupe? i. 12 Ton! ton! What may that be? It cannot be Orthology; I don't recollect its root in the parent languages.

1884 A. J. Patterson in 13th Addr. Philol. Soc. 42 The struggle between the respective partizans of ‘orthology’ and ‘neology’.

1950 H. G. Porteus in P. Russell Exam. Ezra Pound 204 The peculiarly Chinese paradox involved in Pound's advocacy of strict orthodoxy and orthology.

1964 Guardian 21 Dec. 14/8 People may be classified..according to their standards of literacy and orthology.

1975 Systematic Zool. 24 311 It has been pointed out that other evolutionary phenomena..—gene transfer and mistaken phylogenetic homology (orthology in the sense of Fitch, 1970)—can also lead to phenetic or cladistic incompatibilities.

1986 Molecular Biol. & Evol. 3 465 Orthology of prosimian and human ε-, γ-, and β-related globin genes was established by dot-matrix analysis.

2001 Jrnl. Molecular Biol. 314 1041 Unfortunately, orthology analysis between human and e.g. invertebrates is often complex because of large numbers of paralogs within protein families.