ONOLOGYNOUN
foolish talking, vain babbling, a talking like an ass ...1674 obs. rare ETYMOLOGY from Greek όνος (ónos) ass + λόγος (lógos) speech FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1674 - Onology, Vain babling, talking like an Ass From: Glossographia Anglicana Nova, or, A Dictionary Interpreting such Hard Words... Thomas Blount, 1674 (Edition 4) EXAMPLE "...A philosopher may learn from an ass; I shall take your words in my own sense, but I foresee that many will follow you when hey think they are amending me." And this is the true account of the origin of ontology simultaneously with that onology which more than one eminent German, to say nothing of others, has unconsciously preferred." From: The Athenaeum Journal of Literature, Science, and the Fine Arts July to December, 1860 SOURCES • A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles, James Murray, 1887-1933 • The New and Complete Dictionary of the English Language, John Ash, 1795 • The Century Dictionary and Encyclopedia, William Dwight Whitney, 1889-1891 • A Standard Dictionary of the English Language, Isaac K. Funk, 1908 • Webster's International Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Porter, 1895
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