† tirologyn.
Obsolete.
Properly, the science of tiroes; in quots. used for Elementary knowledge.Apparently only in the works of Thomas Becon.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > superficial knowledge > [noun]
tirology1560
lip-wisdoma1586
morosophy1594
slenderness1639
stall-learning1673
index-learning1728
sciolism1753
knowingness1819
pansciolism1868
smattery1892
1560 T. Becon Castell of Comforte in Wks. II. 106 Some of the papistes..where so euer they finde Ignis, take it for Purgatory streyghtwayes. O noble doctors of Tyrology, rather than of Theology.
1563 T. Becon Displaying Popish Masse in Wks. III. 39 But where learned ye this tyrologye? For theologie is it not.
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