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Orismology

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The explanation of technical terms. rare, uncountable
  2. 2
    Technical terms collectively; terminology. rare, uncountable

    "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; […]"

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ὁρισμός (horismós, “definition”) + -logy.

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