Lifelore
Full definition of lifelore
Noun
lifelore
(uncountable)- 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 Kaá¹ikÄcalam, 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."
- (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.