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English
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ὁρισμός (horismós, “definition”) + -logy.
Noun
orismology (uncountable)
- (rare, lexicography) The explanation of technical terms.
- (rare, lexicography) Technical terms collectively; terminology.
1815, William Kirby, William Spence, “Preface”, in An Introduction to Entomology: Or Elements of the Natural History of Insects: with Plates, 3rd edition, volume 1, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, published 1818, page xii:In the Terminology, or what, to avoid the barbarism of a word compounded of Latin and Greek, they would beg to call the Orismology of the science, they have endeavoured to introduce throughout a greater degree of precision and concinnity—dividing it into general and partial Orismology; […]
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