ology
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noun
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Etymology
Origin of ology
First recorded in 1795–1805; extracted from words like biology, geology, etc., where the element -logy is preceded by the connecting vowel -o-; see -o-
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On the other side were 1,000,000 dissident Berbers, led by two of Ben Bella's wartime comrades whose ide ology is vague, but who oppose his ruthless power drive and his economically disastrous rule.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Elizabethan is a foreign language to them," says Epis copal Priest Walter Smith of Atlanta, speaking of couples who want to re write the service in their own phrase ology.
From Time Magazine Archive
But there’s something—not an ology at all—that your father has missed, or forgotten, Louisa.
From Dickens As an Educator by Hughes, James L. (James Laughlin)
But you will observe of the others that once you know the meaning of ology, you are likely to know the whole word.
From The Century Vocabulary Builder by Bachelor, Joseph M. (Joseph Morris)
Until very recently indeed psychology was not an ology at all but an indefinite something or other "up in the air," the sport of the winds and fogs of transcendental tommy rot.
From The Grain of Dust by Phillips, David Graham
Ways and means were at hand, and they did not bother their brains with isms and ologies.
From Historic Papers on the Causes of the Civil War by Potts, Eugenia Dunlap
Mr. Davis knew any quantity of Greek, Latin, Algebra, and ologies of all sorts, so he was called a fine teacher; and manners, morals, feelings, and examples were not considered of any particular importance.
From Little Women or Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Alcott, Louisa May
They know a little music and a little French, but they have never crossed, even in a school-day excursion, the border line of the ologies.
From Castilian Days by Hay, John
For you no longer pass the ologies by with face averted or bow timidly ventured.
From The Century Vocabulary Builder by Bachelor, Joseph M. (Joseph Morris)
If Mrs. G. was only fashionable, we could n't be more than ruined; but she is learned and literary, and given to the "ologies," Tom, and that's what I fear will drive us clean mad.
From The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. I by Lever, Charles James
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