thanatologistn.

Etymology: < thanatology n. + -ist suffix.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: thanaˈtologist.

a. A student of or a person versed in thanatology; in quot. 1901 (nonce-use), one who studies dead animals.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > death > [noun] > study of > person

thanatologist1901

1901 E. Selous Bird Watching viii. 224 We have studied animals only to kill them, or killed them in order to study them. Our ‘zoologists’ have been thanatologists.

1972 New Scientist 2 Mar. 497 Thanatologists ask doctors..to help the terminal patient and his family to meet his own death.

1975 Times Lit. Suppl. 31 Oct. 1305/4 Their real subject, as is customary with Signor Manganelli, is death. He has always been proud of introducing himself as the supreme thanatologist.

1983 Oxf. Bk. Death p. xiii While to ‘deny’ death would sound as foolish as the lady who told Carlyle she had decided to accept the universe, I cannot say that I share the thanatologists' missionary urge to bring death out into the open.

b. An undertaker.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > death > obsequies > people involved in funeral > [noun] > undertaker

undertaker1698

upholder1709

death-hunter1723

black master1823

funeral director1834

mortician1895

black man1927

thanatologist1972

1972 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 1 Mar. 1/8 Quebec's 450 undertakers want to be called thanatologists.

1980 Times 25 Apr. 6/4 He was one of 300 thanatologists, better known as undertakers, gathered in the principality [of Monaco] to discuss death in all its aspects.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online September 2019).

单词	thanatologist
释义	thanatologistn. Etymology: < thanatology n. + -ist suffix.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: thanaˈtologist. a. A student of or a person versed in thanatology; in quot. 1901 (nonce-use), one who studies dead animals. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > [noun] > study of > person thanatologist1901 1901 E. Selous Bird Watching viii. 224 We have studied animals only to kill them, or killed them in order to study them. Our ‘zoologists’ have been thanatologists. 1972 New Scientist 2 Mar. 497 Thanatologists ask doctors..to help the terminal patient and his family to meet his own death. 1975 Times Lit. Suppl. 31 Oct. 1305/4 Their real subject, as is customary with Signor Manganelli, is death. He has always been proud of introducing himself as the supreme thanatologist. 1983 Oxf. Bk. Death p. xiii While to ‘deny’ death would sound as foolish as the lady who told Carlyle she had decided to accept the universe, I cannot say that I share the thanatologists' missionary urge to bring death out into the open. b. An undertaker. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > obsequies > people involved in funeral > [noun] > undertaker undertaker1698 upholder1709 death-hunter1723 black master1823 funeral director1834 mortician1895 black man1927 thanatologist1972 1972 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 1 Mar. 1/8 Quebec's 450 undertakers want to be called thanatologists. 1980 Times 25 Apr. 6/4 He was one of 300 thanatologists, better known as undertakers, gathered in the principality [of Monaco] to discuss death in all its aspects. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online September 2019). < n.1901
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