ology
Americannoun
noun
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-
Example Sentences
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"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
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
And “the reticent hard-favoured ancient,” who turns out to be an American professor of some ology, explains to Khalid why lively music moves children, while soft and subtle tones do not.
From The Book of Khalid by Rihani, Ameen Fares
Do not shy from study of the science of mind because it is an "ology" and therefore may seem hard.
From Certain Success by Hawkins, Norval A.
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
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