stoichiology

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Etymology

Ancient Greek στοιχεῖον (stoikheîon, first element, fundamental principle) + -logy.

Noun

stoichiology (uncountable)

  1. The part of physiology that deals with the elements, or principles, composing animal tissues.
  2. (logic) The doctrine of the elementary requisites of mere thought .
  3. The statement or discussion of the first principles of any science or art.

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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for stoichiology”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)