Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
fossilism , 2.
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- noun The study of
fossils .
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- noun the earth science that studies fossil organisms and related remains
Etymologies
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Examples
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If not with a kind of awe, it must have certainly been with intense curiosity that the first investigators of fossilology looked upon the earliest forms of animated being of which we have any traces as existing upon this globe.
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Hence we derive a light as to what animals may have existed at particular times, which is in some measure independent of the specialties of fossilology.
Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation Robert Chambers 1836
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Rational Review 2009
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