lexicology

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Withal it was widely characterized not only by a lack of education in its ministry, but by a violent and brutal opposition to a learned clergy, which was particularly strange in a party the moiety of whose principles depends on a point in Greek lexicology.

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  1. noun The branch of linguistics that deals with the lexical component of language.

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  • I hate that word more on principle of logic than lexicology.
  • You've been outed - using a well-known liberal-bias intertube-propaganda source for lexicology research. —  AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed
  • Withal it was widely characterized not only by a lack of education in its ministry, but by a violent and brutal opposition to a learned clergy, which was particularly strange in a party the moiety of whose principles depends on a point in Greek lexicology. —  A History of American Christianity
  • He was a profound scholar in Greek and Hebrew lexicology, and gave what was once his country house and garden in old Chelsea Village to the theological seminary of his professorship. —  People of the Whirlpool
  • Chess Notes has been working with the Chief Editor of the Oxford English Dictionary on chess lexicology. —  ChessBase News
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  1. lexico(n) + -logy.

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  1. from Greek λεξικόν, a lexicon,+ -λογία, from λέγειν, say: see -ology.
 

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/lɛksɪˈkɑlədʒi/
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