hygrology
(haɪˈgrɒlədʒɪ)
[mod. f. hygro- + -logy; prob. ad. F. hygrologie.]
That department of physics which relates to the humidity of the atmosphere or other bodies.
| 1790 De Luc in Phil. Trans. LXXXI. 7 Anomalies..of no consequence for the great objects of hygrology and meteorology. 1792 Ibid. LXXXII. 400 An inquiry into the cause of evaporation belongs more to hygrology than to hygrometry. 1849 Herschel in Man. Sci. Enq. ix. 268 [On the sea] we approach the chief problems of hygrology in their least involved and complicated form. |
¶ Erroneously explained in mod. Dicts.
| 1819 Pantologia, Hygrology,..the doctrine of the fluids. 1842 Brande Dict. Sci., etc., Hygrology, a medical term, implying the doctrine of the humours or fluids of the body. [Hence in Worcester and later Dicts.] |