typologicaladj.

1845 P. Fairbairn Typology Script. I. i. i. 21 The obvious errors and imperfections of the typological system.

1868 J. A. Wylie Road to Rome iii. 30 The close of the typological dispensation.

1905 Edinb. Rev. Oct. 333 No typological connexion was to be assumed between the subjects of the nave and the arch.

1882 Trübner's Record 127/2 Future writers on the Invention of Printing should..treat the question from a purely historical and typological point of view.

1891 Athenæum 24 Oct. 554/1 From the evidence of recent finds and the author's typological studies it would further be shown that the whole chronological arrangement of the Syracusan coin-types..required radical revision.

1913 E. T. Leeds Archaeol. Anglo-Saxon Settlements 28 A large amount of information can be obtained from the purely typological method.

1929 V. G. Childe Danube in Prehist. 246 By correlating the several stages in the evolution of celts, daggers,..&c...it is possible to divide the Bronze Age up into several typological phases.

1930 Psyche X. iii. 80 (heading) Typological methods in experimental psychology.

1942 Antiquity 16 61 What typological evidence there is..confirms the standard view of the invasion in its secondary stages.

1964 R. H. Robins Gen. Linguistics viii. 325 It is..possible to compare languages..simply by reference to any significant general features of form or structural organization that they share at any level of analysis... Comparison of languages on this basis is usually distinguished..by the title of typological comparison.

1968 Internat. Encycl. Soc. Sci. XVI. 178/1 Typological classification, as a subdivision of taxonomy, has characterized a considerable part of the culture of the social sciences.

1971 J. Z. Young Introd. Study Man xxvii. 386 We are bound therefore to use arbitrary typological groupings, that is to say to put together those we think seem most alike in appearance or some other character.

1972 Jrnl. Social Psychol. 86 55 The first definition refers to..the characteristics rather than the persons being used for typological identification.

1980 Nature 27 Mar. 341/1 Isaac has stated that it is likely that Olorgesailie may date to before 400 kyr bp and it is suggested on typological grounds that Namib IV is of similar antiquity.

1895 I. K. Funk et al. Standard Dict. Eng. Lang. II.

1921 M. C. Burkitt Prehist. vii. 94 If a series be made out they are found to grade on the one hand into what typologically are Mousterian points, and on the other into a sort of pseudo-Solutrean.

1943 C. L. Wrenn Word & Symbol (1967) 134 Collingwood typologically demonstrates on historical artistic grounds that the inscription belongs to the close of the eighth century.

1964 R. H. Robins Gen. Linguistics viii. 326 Languages are typologically classified according to the similarities of form they exhibit with other languages at any level or levels.

1976 G. W. H. Lampe in M. F. Wiles et al. Christian Believing (Church of Eng. Doctrine Comm.) 55 The Church continued to read it [sc. the Old Testament] in its supposed ‘spiritual’ sense, or typologically.

1980 Nature 27 Mar. 340/2 Typologically..Namib IV may closely be paralleled by East African industries from Olorgesailie, Kilombe and Olduvai IV.