Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to cetology.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to cetology.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or pertaining to
cetology .
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Examples
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Thursday (7/15/04) 8:12am - ... wherein Peter has an hour or two of cetological fun. (a couple vague spoilers)
Peter Rogers's Blog 2004
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But I now leave my cetological System standing thus unfinished, even as the great Cathedral of Cologne was left, with the cranes still standing upon the top of the uncompleted tower.
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But I now leave my cetological System standing thus unfinished, even as the great Cathedral of Cologne was left, with the crane still standing upon the top of the uncompleted tower.
Moby Dick, or, the whale Herman Melville 1855
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But I now leave my cetological System standing thus unfinished, even as the great Cathedral of Cologne was left, with the cranes still standing upon the top of the uncompleted tower.
Moby Dick: or, the White Whale Herman Melville 1855
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But I now leave my cetological System standing thus unfinished, even as the great Cathedral of Cologne was left, with the crane still standing upon the top of the uncompleted tower.
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Okay, I actually like Moby-Dick in all it's unwieldy glory, including all the nautical and cetological stuff.
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Okay, I actually like Moby-Dick in all it's unwieldy glory, including all the nautical and cetological stuff.
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There are longueurs, but even in the midst of tedious cetological lore, one comes across such disturbing passages as that in which the Pequod's sailors squeeze and squeeze and squeeze handfuls of white spermacetti.
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Okay, I actually like Moby-Dick in all it's unwieldy glory, including all the nautical and cetological stuff.
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Okay, I actually like Moby-Dick in all it's unwieldy glory, including all the nautical and cetological stuff.
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