Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A collection of or treatise on maxims or sententious and pithy reflections.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A collection of, or a treatise on, maxims, grave sentences, or reflections.
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- noun obsolete A
collection of, or atreatise on,maxims , grave sentences, orreflections .
Etymologies
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Ancient Greek γνωμολογία (gnōmologia) from γνώμη (gnōmē, "judgement, maxim") + λογία (logia, "collection") (from (legō, "gather, pick up")- see anthology): compare French gnomologie.
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Examples
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SOCRATES: And there is also Polus, who has treasuries of diplasiology, and gnomology, and eikonology, and who teaches in them the names of which Licymnius made him a present; they were to give a polish.
Phaedrus 427? BC-347? BC Plato 1855
qms commented on the word gnomology
It’s published in ponderous tomes
And shelved in the soberest homes.
Despite what you thought
Gnomology’s not
The frivolous study of gnomes.
January 25, 2018