orthology rare.
(ɔːˈθɒlədʒɪ)
[ad. Gr. ὀρθολογία correctness of language, f. *ὀρθολόγος speaking correctly, f. ὀρθό-ς + -λόγος speaking. So mod.F. orthologie.]
Correct speaking; that part of grammar which deals with the correct use of words.
| a 1619 M. Fotherby Atheom. ii. xiii. §1 (1622) 346 The natural, and as it were the homogeneal, parts of grammar be two; orthology, and orthography:..orthology..teaching men the right imposition of names. 1884 A. J. Patterson in 13th Addr. Philol. Soc. 42 The struggle between the respective partizans of ‘orthology’ and ‘neology’. |
So orˈthologer, orthologian (ɔːθəʊˈləʊdʒɪən), one who speaks correctly, or who treats of the correct use of words; orthoˈlogical a., relating to correct speaking.
| 1844 L. A. J. Mordacque (title) French Orthologer: or Complete Course of Theory and Practice on the French Language. 1884 A. J. Patterson in 13th Addr. Philol. Soc. 43 Even at the outset of Kazinczy's career as a ‘neologian’, there was an opposition on the part of those who called themselves ‘orthologians’. 1873 Forster Life of Dickens II. 241 Victims of orthological impropriety. |