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Webster 1913 Edition
Glossology
1.
The definition and explanation of terms; a glossary.
2.
The science of language; comparative philology; linguistics; glottology.
Webster 1828 Edition
Glossology
GLOSSOL'OGY
,Noun.
Glosses or commentaries; explanatory notes for illustrating an author.
Definition 2024
glossology
glossology
English
Noun
glossology (countable and uncountable, plural glossologies)
- (medicine) The study of the tongue and its diseases.
- 1844, The London Lancet: A Journal of British and Foreign Medicine, Physiology, Surgery, Chemistry, Criticism, Literature and News, Volume 1, Article by Benjamin Ridge, page 690,
- Glossology, or the Additional Means of Diagnosis of Disease to be derived from Indications and Appearances of the Tongue.
- 1844, Massachusetts Medical Society, The New England Medical Journal. Volume 30, page 248,
- […] and he argues that the nature and seat of diseases may be detected and discriminated by cultivating this new science of glossology
- 1844, The London Lancet: A Journal of British and Foreign Medicine, Physiology, Surgery, Chemistry, Criticism, Literature and News, Volume 1, Article by Benjamin Ridge, page 690,
- The definition and explanation of terms in constructing a glossary.
- The science of language; linguistics.
- 1841, Roswell Park, Pantology: Or, A Systematic Survey of Human Knowledge, page 42,
- If all nations spoke one and the same language, much of the time now spent in the study of Glossology, would be saved.
- 1841, Roswell Park, Pantology: Or, A Systematic Survey of Human Knowledge, page 42,
Synonyms
- (science of language): glottology, linguistics