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Webster 1913 Edition

(ōˊrĭs-mŏl′ō̍-jy̆)

Noun.

[Gr.

ὁρισμόσ

a marking out by boundaries, the definition of a word +

-logy

. See

That department of natural history which treats of technical terms; the science of defining technical terms.

orismology

(rare) The explanation of technical terms; also technical terms collectively, terminology.
- 1815, William Kirby and William Spence, “Preface”, in An Introduction to Entomology: Or Elements of the Natural History of Insects: with Plates, volume 1, 3^rd edition, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, published 1818, page xii:
  In the Terminology, or what, to avoid the barbarism of a word compounded of Latin and Greek, they would beg to call the Orismology of the science, they have endeavoured to introduce throughout a greater degree of precision and concinnity—dividing it into general and partial Orismology; […]