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Noun
oreologist (plural oreologists)
- (obsolete) Alternative form of orologist
1669, Joan Nieuhof, An embassy from the East-India Company of the United Province to the Grand Tartar Cham emperour of China:The Oreologists relate that there is a Mountain in the Province Uquang, which is so tenacious of its own right, that if any one hath feloniously taken any of its wood, fruit, or the like, he shall never be able to depart thence, being perpetually included as in a Labyrinth; but he that religiously abstaineth, may go thence without trouble.
1809, Jean André Luc, An Elementary Treatise on Geology, page 108:"Many more arguments," he says, "all leading to the same conslusion, may be deduced from the general facts, known in the natural history of mountains; and, if the oreologist would trace back the progress of waste, till he come in sight of that original structure, of which the remains are still so vast, he perceives an immense mass of solid rock, naked and unshapely, as it first emerged from the deep, and incomparably greater than all that is now before him..."
1822, James George Playfair, The Works of John Playfair, page 505:We may safely conclude, then, that the accurate and ingenious Oreologist of Geneva ought to have been a Plutonist, in order to give consistency to the principles which he had adopted, and to make them coalesce as parts of one and the same system.