cetology

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Now, just to be clear, Mr Limbaugh will appear in the post - and as a character he will be prominently featured - but this post is no more about Rush than, say, Moby Dick is "about" cetology, or "The Jeffersons" is

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  • Now, just to be clear, Mr Limbaugh will appear in the post - and as a character he will be prominently featured - but this post is no more about Rush than, say, Moby Dick is "about" cetology, or "The Jeffersons" is —  protein wisdom
  • My object here is simply to project the draught of a systematization of cetology. —  Moby Dick, or, the whale
  • Therefore you must not, in every case at least, take the higgledy-piggledy whale statements, however authentic, in these extracts, for veritable gospel cetology. —  Moby Dick, or, the whale
  • Nevertheless, though of real knowledge there be little, yet of books there are a plenty; and so in some small degree, with cetology, or the science of whales. —  Moby Dick, or, the whale
  • As the external difference between them is mainly observable in their heads; and as a head of each is this moment hanging from the Pequod's side; and as we may freely go from one to the other, by merely stepping across the deck: -- where, I should like to know, will you obtain a better chance to study practical cetology than here? —  Moby Dick, or, the whale
 

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  1. Latin cētus, whale; see Cetus + -logy.

Toggle Century etymologies Century Dictionary (1)

  1. from Greek κῆτος, a whale, + -λογία, from λέγειν, speak: see -ology.
 

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/səˈtɑlədʒi/
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