Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Characterized by minuteness of investigation.
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- adjective Alternative form of
micrologic .
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Examples
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This supplemental relation is revealing, for it emphasizes that the fantasy of benevolent paternalism and the Permanent Settlement are ineffective in and of themselves and thus require the deep micrological regulation of domestic relations which came to pre-occupy British rule in India in the early nineteenth-century.
Projection, Patriotism, Surrogation: Handel in Calcutta 2006
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Qualitative methods are not more micrological or localizing than quantitative ones; they illuminate different aspects of social life.
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As pantagruelism is proceeding almost exclusively on micrological lines, we may expect that, sooner or later, some "eminent physician" will startle the world by discovering the bicycle bacillus.
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