atomology

English

Etymology

atom +‎ -ology

Noun

atomology (usually uncountable, plural atomologies)

  1. (dated) The doctrine of atoms.
    • 1678, R[alph] Cudworth, The True Intellectual System of the Universe: The First Part; wherein All the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism is Confuted; and Its Impossibility Demonstrated, London: […] Richard Royston, […], →OCLC:
      Besides which , it is more than a presumption that Anaxagoras […] similar atomology , was but a degeneration from the true and genuine atomology of the ancient Italics , that was an anomcomery

References

“atomology”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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