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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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29 words match “ONOLOGY”

Foolish discourse. [R.]

ds, and which assigns to events or transactions their proper dates. If history without chronology is dark and confused, chronology without history is dry and insipid. A. Holmes.

A treatise on demons; a supposititious science which treats of demons and their manifestations. Sir W. Scott.

A treatise on gnomonics.

The discussion or description of portraiture or of representative images. Cf. Iconography.

opolizing conversation. It was not by an insolent usurpation that Coleridge persisted in monology through his whole life. De Quincey.

The science or doctrine of the elementary sounds uttered by the human voice in speech, including the various distinctions, modifications, and combinations of tones; phonetics. Also, a treatise on sounds.

SYNCHRONOLOGY n.

Contemporaneous chronology.

Terminology. [R.]

That part of medicine which treats of urine. Dunglison.

A misplacing or error in the order of time; an error in chronology by which events are misplaced in regard to each other, esp. one by which an event is placed too early; falsification of chronological relation.

gard to angels. The same mythology commanded the general consent; the same angelology, demonology. Milman.

CHRONOLOGIC; CHRONOLOGICAL a.

Relating to chronology; containing an account of events in the order of time; according to the order of time; as, chronological tables. Raleigh. -- Chron`o*log"ic*al*ly, adv.

CHRONOLOGIST; CHRONOLOGER n.

A person who investigates dates of events and transactions; one skilled in chronology. That learned noise and dust of the chronologist is wholly to be avoided. Locke. THe most exact chronologers tell us that Christ was born in October, and not in December. John Knox.

ns. -- Cycle of indiction, a period of 15 years, employed in Roman and ecclesiastical chronology, not founded on any astronomical period, but having reference to certain judicial acts which took place at stated epochs under the Greek emperors. -- Cycle of the moon, or Metonic cycle, a period of 19 years, after the la…

One versed in demonology. R. North.

DEMONOLOGIC; DEMONOLOGICAL a.

Of or Pertaining to demonology.

DEMONOLOGIST n.

One who writes on, or is versed in, demonology.

METACHRONISM n.

An error committed in chronology by placing an event after its real time.

Of or pertaining to millions; consisting of millions; as, the millionary chronology of the pundits. Pinker