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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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
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 Ameen Fares Rihani
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 Joseph M. (Joseph Morris) Bachelor
I would rather they chose some other ology.
From Health Five Lay Sermons to Working-People by John Brown
Pass in mental review all the ologies you can assemble.
From The Century Vocabulary Builder by Joseph M. (Joseph Morris) Bachelor
But Lady Anne did not mind poverty; she fattened her chickens and pigs for market, she studied botany and all the ologies by herself, and she taught her children.
From Story of My Life, volumes 1-3 by Augustus J. C. Hare
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 John Hay
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
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 Eugenia Dunlap Potts
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