Glossology

Mr. Wright, in editing this handsome volume, has done another service to the lovers and students of English glossology. ❋ Various (N/A)

It is proved by physiology, by psychology, by glossology, and by civil history. ❋ James Freeman Clarke (1849)

This has appeared and is proved by means of glossology, or the science of language. ❋ James Freeman Clarke (1849)

_Gloze_ is from the old word _glose_, a gloss or explanation (Gr. _glossa_, the tongue): hence also glossary, glossology, etc. Trench, in his lecture on the Morality of Words, points out how often fair names are given to ugly things: it is in this way that a word which merely denoted an explanation has come to denote a false explanation, an endeavour to deceive. ❋ John Milton (1641)

Consider William Taylor's plea (in the "Annual Review and History of Literature," 1808): "We appeal to every lover of glossology in general, and of English literature in particular, for assistance to promulgate and to preserve a supplement to Johnson's Dictionary ...." ❋ Unknown (1984)