campanology

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  1. noun The art or study of bell casting and ringing.

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  • Sayers includes a nice summation of the peculiar aesthetics of campanology in —  Cocktail Party Physics
  • Can you solve the puzzle 268.--THE PEAL OF BELLS A correspondent, who is apparently much interested in campanology, asks me how he is to construct what he calls a "true and correct" peal for four bells. —  Amusements in Mathematics
  • A correspondent, who is apparently much interested in campanology, asks me how he is to construct what he calls a "true and correct" peal for four bells. —  Amusements in Mathematics
  • Scropps never could, under the most improved system of campanology, be jingled into any thing harmonious, I have no doubt I, like my great predecessor Whittington, might have heard in that peal a prediction of my future exaltation; certain it is I did not; and, wearied with my journey, I took up my lodging for the night at a very humble house near —  The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 380, July 11, 1829
  • He said of the Bishop's new appointment, "Alan, alongside his musical and campanology skills, is an excellent bishop, with a real heart for the mission of Christ's church. —  Clerical Whispers
 

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  1. Late Latin campāna, bell; see campanile + -logy.

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  1. from Middle Latin campana, a bell, + Greek -λογία, from λέγειν, speak: see -ology.
 

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/kæmpəˈnɑlədʒi/
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