Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The scientific study of the tongue and its diseases.
- noun The definition and explanation of terms, as of a dialect, a science, etc
- noun The science of language; universal grammar; comparative philology; glottology.
- noun Also
glottology .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The definition and explanation of terms; a glossary.
- noun The science of language; comparative philology; linguistics; glottology.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun medicine The study of the
tongue and its diseases. - noun The
definition andexplanation ofterms in constructing aglossary . - noun The
science oflanguage ;linguistics .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Mr. Wright, in editing this handsome volume, has done another service to the lovers and students of English glossology.
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It is proved by physiology, by psychology, by glossology, and by civil history.
Ten Great Religions An Essay in Comparative Theology James Freeman Clarke 1849
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This has appeared and is proved by means of glossology, or the science of language.
Ten Great Religions An Essay in Comparative Theology James Freeman Clarke 1849
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_Gloze_ is from the old word _glose_, a gloss or explanation (Gr. _glossa_, the tongue): hence also glossary, glossology, etc. Trench, in his lecture on the Morality of Words, points out how often fair names are given to ugly things: it is in this way that a word which merely denoted an explanation has come to denote a false explanation, an endeavour to deceive.
Milton's Comus John Milton 1641
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Consider William Taylor's plea (in the "Annual Review and History of Literature," 1808): "We appeal to every lover of glossology in general, and of English literature in particular, for assistance to promulgate and to preserve a supplement to Johnson's Dictionary ...."
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