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tombology

tombology noun: the study of tombs.

Noun

tombology (uncountable)

  1. The study of tombs.
    • The earliest authentic instance of tombology we have been enabled to discover is an inscription completely at variance with all our modern ideas of grave-yard poetry.[…]The melon disease, however, is not the only one which has the honour of a place in the archives of tombology.[…]At Pewsey (from...1863, B[ourchier] W[rey] Savile, “The End of Man. […]”, in Man; or, The Old and New Philosophy: […], London: Hurst and Blackett, […], pages 261, 279, and 286
    • (2.) Dr. Lepsius, in his Letters from Egypt, and also in the numerous volumes of folio plates of his Denkmaeler—deeply learned in hieroglyphic Egyptology and tombology.1868, “A Clergyman” [William Mackenzie], “Note II.—Works on the Great Pyramid.”, in The Pyramid and the Bible, the Rectitude of the One in Accordance with the Truth of the Other, Edinburgh: Edmonston...

Origin of tombology

From tomb + -ology.

Questions about tombology

What does tombology mean?
Tombology means the study of tombs.
What part of speech is tombology?
Tombology is a noun.

Words near tombology in the dictionary

  1. tombo
  2. tombo ahi
  3. tombola
  4. tombolas
  5. tombolo
  6. tombology
  7. tombolos
  8. Tombong
  9. Tomboro
  10. tomboy
  11. Tomboye

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