• Lifelore

    Alternative forms

    Origin

    From life + lore("learning, knowledge").

    Full definition of lifelore

    Noun

    lifelore

    (uncountable)
    1. The knowledge of life or life experiences; wisdom.
      • 1891, James Vila Blake, Happiness from Thoughts and other Sermons:For who is he that shall hinder thee from being good and simple?" Full of high and pure religious thoughts and beautiful lifelore is this sage, ...
      • 1981, Ca. VÄ“ Cuppiramaṇiyan̲, Shanmuga Velayutham Subramanian, Na Kaá¹­ikācalam, Literary heritage of the Tamils:The heritage of a language lies in its lifelore and literature.
      • 1989, Garrison Keillor, We are still married:Friends also were supposed to organize the Celebration, which would be "a free-form coming-together (non-sorrowing) of Survivors to share music, games, food, history, personhood — to exchange tokens, totems, lifelore, etc."
    2. (science) The study of life; biology.
      • 1909, John Bretland Farmer, The book of nature study: Volume 1:It may be useful to teachers to point out that the naturalist asks four chief questions — the answers to which, all very imperfect, are unified into a science of lifelore or biology.
      • 1932, Lorande Loss Woodruff, Animal biology:Origin of Life Lore
      • 2010, Lun, Wars of Times: The Gods of Time:You dizzy little girl. How can you even stand before me and pretend to know anything about Lifelore?” asked Uncle Ap Oka, referring to the art of creating life.
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