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vitology

vitology noun: an approach to healthy living promoted in the late 19th and early 20th century.

Noun (1)

vitology (uncountable)

  1. (historical) An approach to healthy living promoted in the late 19th and early 20th century.
    • The modern trend towards the so-called nature cure methods betrays the dim prevision of the new climatic treatment embodied in the science of vitology.1912, The Freewoman - Volume 2, page 293
    • Vitology establishes tranquility, poise, reserve strength; cultivates your memory; makes you ambitious, courageous, powerful -- all this and more may beyours through the study and application of this wonderul new science of mental and physical efficiency, and without the use of drugs.1914, Elbert Hubbard, Felix Shay, The Fra: For Philistines and Roycrofters - Volume 13, page xxiii
  2. The scientific study of life at the cellular level.
    • D. In order to complete agricultural education, the American countries should keep in view: (1) Supplementary establishments for agricultural experiment stations, laboratories of vegetable pathology and vitology, special stations, agricultural statistics, etc.; (2) the development of extension...1909, U. S. Department of Agriculture, Office of Experiment Stations, “Editorial Notes”, “The First Pan-American Scientific Congress”, in E. W. Allen, H. L. Knight (assistant), editors, Experimental...
    • Whilst there is always that steady step forward in the field of treatment, chiefly in improved surgical anaesthetic and resuscitation techniques, there has been no development during the past twelve mothns especially in the fields of chemotherapy, vitology, immunology etc. which can be regarded as...1967, New South Wales. Parliament, Joint Volumes of Papers Presented to the Legislative Council, page 297
  3. An African worldview that unites life, consciousness, behavior, and culture.
    • Martin Nkafu Nkemnkia distinguishes life from being in his theory of African vitology.2007, Satya Nilayam: Chennai Journal of Intercultural Philosophy, page 12
    • African vitology is "a conceptual vision of the whole of reality, where there are no spaces for irreducible dichotomies between matter and spirit, religious commitment and daily life, soul and body, the world of the living and the world of the dead...each concept, scientific field, cultural aspect...2012, Stan Chu Ilo, The Face of Africa: Looking Beyond the Shadows, page 137
  4. The study or existence of virtual or computer-augmented life.
    • Everywhere means physical and cyberspace, real and virtual reality, because vitology can thrive in many spaces.2012, Truths of Terasem, page 30
    • This quick survey of the spread and potential of cyberspace demonstrates that vitology won't run out of an environment in which to rapidly evolve.2014, Martine Rothblatt, Virtually Human, page 161
  5. The model of the life force (chi) in traditional Chinese medicine and philosophy.
    • As we have seen, the essential concept of the remaining margin is based on the vitology of Oriental medicine. According to vitology, the movement of energy starts time and space, and the beginning of time sets the flow of energy in the space.2015, Byong-Hyon Han, Therapy of Social Medicine, page 34
  6. Life sciences in general.
    • The science of vitology consists of social sciences like economics, legal studies, health sciences, sociology, psychology and educational studies even as they regard the educational system a part of the social system which encompasses system of sciences, health and polical system, etc.2002, Rajendra Pal Singh, Gopal Rana, Teacher Education in Turmoil: Quest for a Solution, page 72

Noun (2)

vitology (uncountable)

  1. The horticulture of vineyards.
    • As a part of the vitology curriculum, performance steps are provided for a total of 66 tasks in the following 8 duty areas: establishing the vineyard, maintaining and operating a water management system, managing the soil, managing the plant canopy, controlling pests, marketing the crop, managing...1988 January, “Document Section”, in Resources in Education, volume 23, number 1, Education Resources Information Center, “Viticulture and Enology Curriculum”, page 11, column 1

Examples of vitology in a sentence

  • But God is not mocked, either by vitamines, vegetables, vibrations, or vitology.1927, Saturday Review of Literature - Volume 4, page 927:
  • Through vitology, “one eliminates and heals menstruation as well as seminal losses."1981, Viktoras P. Kulvinskas, Richard Tasca Jr., Life in the 21st Century, page 31:
  • Faculty research: Emerging diseases, tropical diseases, parasitology, vitology and bacteriology.2011, Peterson's Graduate Programs in Genetics, Developmental Biology, & Reproductive Biology; Marine Biology; and Microbiological Sciences:
  • Theologians such a Nkemnikia speak of African theology and philosophy from the perspective of “vitology.”2016, Edmund Kee-Fook Chia, Interfaith Dialogue: Global Perspectives, page 203:

Origin of vitology

From Latin vīta (“life”), from vīvō (“to live”), + -ology.

From Latin vītis (“vine”) + -ology.

Questions about vitology

What does vitology mean?
Vitology means an approach to healthy living promoted in the late 19th and early 20th century.
How do you use vitology in a sentence?
But God is not mocked, either by vitamines, vegetables, vibrations, or vitology.
What part of speech is vitology?
Vitology is a noun.

Words near vitology in the dictionary

  1. vitligo
  2. Vito
  3. Vito Russo test
  4. vitochemical
  5. Vitolo
  6. vitology
  7. Vitolos
  8. Vitomir
  9. Vitomirești
  10. Viton
  11. Vitoria

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