单词 | scatology |
释义 | scatologyn. 1. That branch of science which deals with diagnosis by means of the fæces. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > diagnosis or prognosis > [noun] > diagnosis > specific methods of diagnosis uromancy1569 uroscopy1646 waterology1654 analogism1663 succussion1747 mensuration1827 urinoscopy1836 urinalysis1867 uranalysis1889 skiagraphy1896 scatology1897 cytodiagnosis1900 cytology1902 radiodiagnosis1904 radiodiagnostics1904 urinomancy1904 iridology1916 iridiagnosis1918 iris diagnosis1921 xenodiagnosis1947 ultrasonography1960 telediagnosis1961 immunodiagnostics1970 1897 in New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon 2. That branch of palæontology which treats of fossil excrement or coprolites. (In recent dictionaries.) 3. Filthy literature. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > moral or spiritual impurity > indecency > [noun] > pornography > in literature facetiae1851 scatology1876 1876 Notes & Queries 5th Ser. V. 31 Mr. Swifte's suggestion that scatology may be derived from scateo. 1887 G. Saintsbury Hist. Elizabethan Lit. x. 370 A large quantity of mere scatology and doggerel. 1936 R. Quintana Mind & Art of Jonathan Swift vi. ii. 360 From scatology one turns with relief to the capital verses entitled Helter Skelter. 1959 N. O. Brown Life against Death xiii. 179 The most scandalous pieces of Swiftian scatology are..The Lady's Dressing Room, Strephon and Chloe, Cassinus and Peter. 1975 Publishers Weekly 22 Sept. 134/1 Funny, albeit unintentional scatology in the [zodiacal] Sign abbreviations. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1876 |
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