▪ I. † hysteˈrology1 Obs. Gram., etc.
[ad. late L. hysterologia, a. Gr. ὑστερολογία, f. ὑστερο-, hystero-2 + λόγος speech. Cf. F. hystérologie.]
= hysteron proteron. (See also quot. 1842.)
| 1623 Cockeram, Historologie, an altering of the order of speech, by placing that after that should be before. 1657 W. Morice Coena quasi κοινὴ Def. xi. 129 These Notes are..never used to manifest an hysterology, or transposition of things. 1684 H. More Answer 156 Here therefore is an Hysterology in the Cortex. 1842 Brande Dict. Sci, etc. s.v., Some comprehend the figure usually called anti⁓climax..under the name Hysterology. |
▪ II. hysterology2 Med.
(hɪstəˈrɒlədʒɪ)
[f. hystero-1 + -logy.]
A treatise on the uterus.
| 1855 Mayne Expos. Lex., Hysterologia,..term for a treatise or dissertation on the womb, its functions, etc.: hysterology. 1880 E. N. Chapman (title) Hysterology, a Treatise, Descriptive and Clinical, on the Diseases and Displacements of the Uterus. |