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hippology

American

[hi-pol-uh-jee] / hɪˈpɒl ə dʒi /

noun

the study of horses.

Other Word Forms

hippological adjective
hippologist noun

Etymology

Origin of hippology

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

Example Sentences

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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 Stables, Gordon

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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