ology
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ologies
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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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"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
Do not shy from study of the science of mind because it is an "ology" and therefore may seem hard.
From Certain Success by Norval A. Hawkins
If there is any ology left, of any description, that has not been worn to rags in this house, all I can say is, I hope I shall never hear its name.”
From Dickens As an Educator by James L. (James Laughlin) Hughes
In conchology only one element, ology, was really dubious at the outset.
From The Century Vocabulary Builder by Joseph M. (Joseph Morris) Bachelor
He is very quiet, very grave, has no wonderful travellers' stories, and none of the ologies, and can play chess, for I asked him.
From Gladys, the Reaper by Anne Beale
The average German professor spends his life in making lanterns fit to guide us through the obscurest passages of all the ologies and ysics, and there are none in the world of such honest workmanship.
From Among My Books First Series by James Russell Lowell
I shall overhaul my terminologies, and, with the "metaphysical aid" of my cousin, fit it with a scientific name which shall overtop all the ologies.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 11, September, 1858 by Various
There were no high up "isms" or "ologies" for girls in those days.
From A Little Girl in Old Salem by Amanda Minnie Douglas
It is, for example, not the cultivated scientist, not the wise scientist, who urges those huge and exorbitant claims which are sometimes advanced for physical science in these days—for electricity and chemistry and ologies.
From Platform Monologues by T. G. (Thomas George) Tucker
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