sphragistics

American

[sfruh-jis-tiks] / sfrəˈdʒɪs tɪks /

noun

(used with a singular verb)

the scientific study of seals or signet rings.

sphragistics British

/ sfrəˈdʒɪstɪks /

noun

(functioning as singular) the study of seals and signet rings

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Other Word Forms

sphragistic adjective

Etymology

Origin of sphragistics

First recorded in 1830–40; sphragistic, -ics

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Sphragistics, sfrā-jis′tiks, n. knowledge about seals, their age, history, &c.

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Our Victor is gone and is hushed, who talked so often of mathematics, clinical medicine, heraldry, precautionary jurisprudence, medicina forensis, Sphragistics and their auxiliary sciences.

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