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hierology|haɪəˈrɒlədʒɪ|
[f. hiero + -logy. Cf. late Gr. ἱερολογία sacred or mystical language, benediction. In mod.L. hierologia, F. hiérologie.]
†1. ‘A discourse on sacred things’ (Webster 1828). Obs.
†2. Hieroglyphic lore; the study of Egyptian records. Obs.
a1848M. Russell Hist. Egypt xi. (1853) 452 The later discoveries in hierology. 1859W. H. Gregory Egypt I. 36 It is the pride of modern hierology..to have brought to light some annals of a monarch [Sesortesen] whose existence and name were omitted by all historians.
3. Sacred literature or lore; the literature embodying the religious beliefs of a country or people; e.g. of the Egyptians, Greeks, Jews, etc.
1854Emerson Lett. & Soc. Aims, Quot. & Orig. Wks. (Bohn) III. 214 The new researches..have opened to us the deep debt of the churches of Rome and England to the Egyptian hierology. 1862Burton Bk. Hunter (1863) 352 Not to throw away the cosmogony and the hierology of Greece. 187919th Cent. Sept. 486 The conjectured relation between the Nuk-pu-nuk of Egyptian hierology and the ‘I am that I am’ of the Hebrew legislator.
4. The history of religions as a branch of study.
1883Contemp. Rev. Aug. 204 Zoroastrianism..is of the highest value to hierology.
5. = hagiology.
1890E. Venables in Rep. Linc. Archit. Soc. 265 St. Edmund King and Martyr..the St. Sebastian of English hierology.
So hieroˈlogic, hieroˈlogical adjs., belonging to hierology; hieˈrologist, one versed in hierology.
1839Fraser's Mag. XX. 204 Our living hierologists..have laboured conjecturally to fill up the vague outline of Herodotus. a1848M. Russell Hist. Egypt xiii. (1853) 504 Samuel Birch..one of the ablest of modern hierologists. 1864Webster, Hierologic, Hierological. |