ology
Americannoun
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-
Example Sentences
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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
No, no; the branches you have mentioned are all hard enough in themselves, particularly that last ology about the bumps on people's heads.
From Pencil Sketches or, Outlines of Character and Manners by Leslie, Eliza
Topography, yarbography, bugology and the dickens knows wot ology.
From A Dream of Empire Or, The House of Blennerhassett by Venable, William Henry
Since science is the product of mature minds, the culmination of knowledge, then in this course for adolescents, the "ology" must not be too greatly stressed lest the essential part, the "bios" be obscured.
From Adequate Preparation for the Teacher of Biological Sciences in Secondary Schools by McDonald, James Daley
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