Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The art or study of bell casting and ringing.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The art or the principles of bell-founding, bell-ringing, etc.
  • noun A treatise on this art.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The art of ringing bells, or a treatise on the art.

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  • noun The study of bells; their casting, tuning, and ringing.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Late Latin campāna, bell; see campanile + –logy.]

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From Late Latin campāna ("bell") +‎ -ology

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Examples

  • A cheerful little piece about Liverpool cathedrals "performance" via campanology bells to you of the dreadful scouse bore martyr joko lenings ditty "imagine".

    OPEN THREAD 2009

  • They were earnest and mostly rather good at the campanology game according to partner who hardly had to ring at all.

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  • They were earnest and mostly rather good at the campanology game according to partner who hardly had to ring at all.

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  • They were earnest and mostly rather good at the campanology game according to partner who hardly had to ring at all.

    Archive 2007-08-01 2007

  • InspiredCode's ChurchBells software for Windows is a terrifying insight into the world of the campanology enthusiast: a belltower on your desktop.

    Don't Let the Bells End 2005

  • Scropps never could, under the most improved system of campanology, be jingled into any thing harmonious, I have no doubt I, like my great predecessor Whittington, might have heard in that peal a prediction of my future exaltation; certain it is I did not; and, wearied with my journey, I took up my lodging for the night at a very humble house near

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  • Moscow is one of the main centers for the manufacture of the church bells in which the Russian peasant takes such delight; and, being much interested in campanology, I visited several of the principal foundries, and was delighted with the size and workmanship of many specimens.

    [Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White 1906

  • A correspondent, who is apparently much interested in campanology, asks me how he is to construct what he calls a "true and correct" peal for four bells.

    Amusements in Mathematics Henry Ernest Dudeney 1893

  • This giant-gift had been sent to him from Holland in recognition of his musical genius, especially in the matter of campanology.

    My Life as an Author Tupper, Martin F 1886

  • For example, Sayers went to extraordinary lengths to learn the elements of campanology for

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  • The study of bells.

    March 6, 2007

  • more correctly the study of the true bell ringing

    July 8, 2010

  • (noun) - A discourse on bells or bell-ringing; from Italian campana, bell.

    --James Donald's Chambers' Etymological Dictionary of the English Language, 1877

    January 17, 2018