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terminology|tɜːmɪˈnɒlədʒɪ|
[mod. f. L. termin-us, in its med.L. sense ‘term’ + -logy: used in Ger. 1786 by Prof. C. G. Schütz of Jena: see Kant's Briefwechsel (1900) I. 446; so terminologisch 1788.]
Etymologically, The doctrine or scientific study of terms; in use almost always, The system of terms belonging to any science or subject; technical terms collectively; nomenclature.
1801Med. Jrnl. V. 587 Mr. Nemnich, of Hamburg, will shortly publish a complete Nosological Dictionary... It is to consist of two parts, in the first of which the Latin terminology will be given, and in the second, the dictionary of the above languages, relating to diseases, with a Latin explanation. 1815Kirby & Sp. Entomol. (1843) I. Pref. 11 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. 1837Whewell Hist. Induct. Sc. (1857) III. 258, I designate as Terminology the system of terms employed in the description of objects of natural history. 1847Lewes Hist. Philos. (1867) II. 452 Kant, who..gave old ideas a novelty by giving them a new terminology. 1854S. Thomson Wild Fl. iii. (1861) 146 Some knowledge..of botanical terms—Terminology—is requisite. 1880Huxley Crayfish 14 Every calling has its technical terminology.
Hence ˌterminoˈlogical a., pertaining to terminology; terminological inexactitude, a humorous expression for a falsehood; ˌterminoˈlogically adv.; termiˈnologist, one versed in terminology.
1861F. Winslow Obsc. Dis. Brain & Mind iii. (ed. 2) 36 Who can only distinguish terminologically and locally the coarser wheels of this piece of intellectual clockwork. 1894Pall Mall G. 1 Nov. 3/1 A winding road ankle deep in mud..called Orchard-street. Why an orchard was so persistently associated with this God-forsaken region is a question a terminologist only can answer. 1906W. Churchill Sp. Ho. Com. 22 Feb., It could not..be classified as slavery..in the extreme acceptance of the word, without some risk of terminological inexactitude. 1907Month July 57 Lynx-eyed censors, keenly on the look out for the least hint of terminological inexactitude. 1926Fowler Mod. Eng. Usage 444/1 Polysyllabic humour... Of the long as distinguished from the abstruse, terminological inexactitude for lie or falsehood is a favourable example, but much less amusing at the hundredth than at the first time of hearing. 1940C. Milburn Diary 19 July (1979) 49, I can't think..why he [sc. Hitler] does not choke himself with his ‘terminological inexactitudes’! 1976A. Price War Game i. viii. 159 It all adds up to a little terminological inexactitude―he was lying through his goddamn teeth. |