stoichiology
English
Alternative forms
- stoechiology
Etymology
Ancient Greek στοιχεῖον (stoikheîon, “first element, fundamental principle”) + -logy.
Noun
stoichiology (uncountable)
- The part of physiology that deals with the elements, or principles, composing animal tissues.
- (logic) The doctrine of the elementary requisites of mere thought.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Sir W. Hamilton to this entry?)
- The statement or discussion of the first principles of any science or art.
Translations
logic
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for stoichiology in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)