• Cynology

    Origin

    - + logy + -

    Full definition of cynology

    Noun

    cynology

    (uncountable)
    1. The study of dogs.
      • 1892, The Journal of Comparative Medicine and Veterinary Archives,Professor Mills has done excellent work in his course on "Cynology, the Dog and his Diseases," a subject hitherto only taught incidentally in any college ...
      • 1951, The American Mercury,Students of cynology can trace in the dictionary the dog's remarkable rise in the public esteem in this century.
      • 1985, The Complete Dog Book, published by the American Kennel Club,The annals of cynology make no further mention of the breed until 1901 when a combined Rottweiler and Leonberger Club was formed.
      • 1990, Austin Farrer, in his introduction to G. W. Leibniz’ Theodicy; quoted in Charles Taliaferro’s 2005 Evidence and Faith,Now neither probatology nor cynology could hope to be universal — the world is not all sheep nor all dog: it would have to be hylology; ...

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