bibliology

[ bib-lee-ol-uh-jee ]

noun

, plural bib·li·ol·o·gies.

1. bibliography ( def 3 ).

Other Words From

• bib·li·o·log·i·cal [bib-lee-, uh, -, loj, -i-k, uh, l], adjective
• bibli·olo·gist noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of bibliology¹

First recorded in 1800–10; biblio- + -logy

Example Sentences

Bibliology, bib-li-ol′ō-ji, n. an account of books: biblical literature, or theology.

From Project Gutenberg

In England the new meaning seems to have been popularized by the Rev. Thomas Frognall Dibdin early in the 19th century, while Southey preferred the rival form bibliology, which is now hardly used.

From Project Gutenberg

In pursuing this line of research it goes closely into the question of religion in all its aspects, ancient and modern; Eastern and Western, and while frankly critical of orthodoxy, brings at the same time to light many little-known points with regard to bibliology which cannot fail to change for the better the point of view of many to whom current Christianity is a perplexity.

From Project Gutenberg

So I called in the services of two reverend friends of mine—able, eminent, and renowned professors of biology, bibliology, ethnology, and sockdology—who at once pronounced it ancient Cush and proceeded to translate it; one remarking with a levity which but indifferently became his calling, as I thought, that the exceeding toughness of the yarn no doubt accounted for the difficulty of sawing into it—in which view his collaborator, to my surprise, was inclined to coincide.

From Project Gutenberg

He was also one of the representatives of the Church of Scotland in the General Presbyterian Alliance from the date of its formation, and took part in the business of all its General Councils, at the first of which, held at Edinburgh in 1877, he laid on the table a paper which he had drawn up on "The Harmony between the Bibliology of the Westminster Confession and that of the earlier Reformed Confessions, exhibited in parallel columns."

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