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hippology

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[hi-pol-uh-jee] / hɪˈpɒl ə dʒi /

noun

  1. the study of horses.


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Etymology

Origin of hippology

First recorded in 1850–55; hippo- + -logy


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Ladies are seldom very far behind men in their knowledge of hippology.

From The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer" Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan by Gordon Stables

The literature about the horse and its history and uses is voluminous, and is collected up to 1887 in Huth’s Works on Horses, &c., a bibliographical record of hippology.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" by Various

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