单词 | botanology |
释义 | botanologyn. 1. Divination by plants; the study of mystical properties ascribed to plants or flowers. Cf. botanomancy n. rare (now historical). ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > divination by natural phenomena > [noun] > by plants botanomancy1610 botanology1656 daphnomancy1656 1656 P. K. Surfeit to A B C 33 Some talk of the virtue of herbs, others of the influence & effect of stars, Botanology and Astrology. 2014 J. P. Rhind Fragrance & Wellbeing x. 291 The language of flowers acquired religious, scientific and occult traditions, and even spawned a new study—botanology. 2. = botany n. 1. Now historical or archaic. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > botany > [noun] herbarism1597 botany1647 botanics1658 botanology1658 phytology1658 herbalism1664 botanomy1716 botanism1725 plant science1846 wort-cunning1864 1658 Sir T. Browne Garden of Cyrus iv, in Hydriotaphia: Urne-buriall 175 The Tree..which stricter Botanology will hardly allow to be Camphire. 1715 S. Switzer Nobleman, Gentleman, & Gardener's Recreation iv. 104 'Tis hard to find any thing in the whole Cycle of Botanology that has not an immediate Share of this virtual and diffusive Good. 1831 H. Livermore Wreath from Jessamine Lawn I. iii. 91 John Armly's powers in botanology. 1937 Music & Lett. 18 85 There is as little need for him to worry about..the length of his vocal cords as there is for a cricketer to know the number of bones in his wrist or the botanology of the willow-tree. 2009 L. Koerner Linnaeus: Nature & Nation 37 Linnaeus derived most aspects of his ‘completely new’ botanology from earlier naturalists. Derivatives botaˈnologer n. rare (now archaic) a person skilled in botanology. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > botany > [noun] > botanist herbary1548 herbarian1577 herbarist1577 herborist1578 herbalist1594 herbist1611 herbister1623 botanist1647 botanic1655 botanologer1658 phytologist1706 philo-botanist1824 1658 Sir T. Browne Garden of Cyrus i, in Hydriotaphia: Urne-buriall 102 The wisedom of that eminent Botanologer [sc. Solomon]. 1970 ‘Mercurius Oxoniensis’ Lett. of Mercurius 58 There are few elections in which a chymist or a botanologer is not put forward and pressed hard by the mechanick party. botanoˈlogical adj. rare relating to botany. ΚΠ 1887 N.E.D. Botanological. 2013 P. Bouras-Vallianatos Simon of Genoa's Med. Lexicon 38 The methodology follows the approach used by Stannard in his studies on Byzantine and late medieval pharmacological and botanological lexicography. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1656 |
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