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n. [ Gr. &unr_; wild, savage + -logy. ] Description or comparative study of the customs of savage or uncivilized tribes. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Preventing the contagion of smallpox. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; + -logy. ] That part of anatomy which treats of arteries. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. 'arthri`a + -logy. ] (Med.) a form of arteriosclerosis which affects predominantly the arterioles, found especially in people with chronic hypertension. Stedman [ PJC ]

a. Of or pertaining to Assyriology; as, Assyriological studies. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One versed in Assyriology; a student of Assyrian archæology. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Assyria + -logy. ] The science or study of the antiquities, language, etc., of ancient Assyria. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to bacteriology; as, bacteriological studies. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One skilled in bacteriology. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Bacterium + -logy. ] (Biol.) The branch of microbiology relating to bacteria. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. kyriologiko`s speaking literally (applied to curiologic hieroglyphics); ky`rios authoritative, proper + lo`gos word, thought. Cf. Cyriologic. ] Pertaining to a rude kind of hieroglyphics, in which a thing is represented by its picture instead of by a symbol. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ See Curiologic. ] Relating to capital letters. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; history + -logy. ] A discourse on history. Cockeram. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ See Curiologic. ] Serving to denote objects by conventional signs or alphabetical characters; as, the original Greek alphabet of sixteen letters was called kyriologic, because it represented the pure elementary sounds. See Curiologic. [ Written also curiologic and kuriologic. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The term is also applied, as by Warburton, to those Egyptian hieroglyphics, in which a part is put conventionally for the whole, as in depicting a battle by two hands, one holding a shield and the other a bow.

{ } n. [ Gr. &unr_;, &unr_;. See Curiologic. ] The use of literal or simple expressions, as distinguished from the use of figurative or obscure ones. Krauth-Fleming. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or relating to a myriologue. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who composes or sings a myriologue. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. myriologue, myriologie, NGr. &unr_;, &unr_;, fr. Gr. Moi^ra the goddess of fate or death + lo`gos speech, discourse. ] An extemporaneous funeral song, composed and sung by a woman on the death of a friend. [ Modern Greece ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. swthri`a safety (from swth`rios saving, swth`r a savior, sw`zein to save) + -logy. ] 1. A discourse on health, or the science of promoting and preserving health. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Theol.) The doctrine of salvation by Jesus Christ. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Variola + -oid: cf. F. varioloïde. ] (Med.) Resembling smallpox; pertaining to the disease called varioloid. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. varioloïde. See Varioloid, a. ] (Med.) The smallpox as modified by previous inoculation or vaccination. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ It is almost always a milder disease than smallpox, and this circumstance, with its shorter duration, exhibits the salutary effects of previous vaccination or inoculation. Dunglison. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ LL. variolosus, fr. variola the smallpox: cf. F. varioleux. ] (Med.) Of or pertaining to the smallpox; having pits, or sunken impressions, like those of the smallpox; variolar; variolic. [ 1913 Webster ]