halieutics

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  1. A treatise on fishes, or on the art of fishing: as, the Halieutics of Oppian.
  2. That branch of practical theology (‘fishing for men’) which treats of the theory of the extension of Christian, missions; the science of Christian missions, specifically, of foreign missions.

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  1. from Latin halieutica (the title of a poem on fishing, by Ovid), from Greek ἁλιευτικά (the title of a poem by Oppian), neuter plural (cf. ἁλιευτική, sc. τέχνη, the art of fishing, feminine singular) of ἁλιευτικός, of or for fishing (cf. ἁλιευτής, and ἁλιεύς, a fisher), from ἁλιεύειν, fish, be a fisher, from ἄλς, the sea.
 

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