English

Alternative forms

• life-lore, life lore

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. Vē Cuppiramaṇiyan̲, Shanmuga Velayutham Subramanian, Na Kaṭikācalam, 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. (sciences) 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.