Crossword-Solution: TERATOLOGY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Teratology | n. | That branch of biological science which treats of monstrosities, malformations, or deviations from the normal type of structure, either in plants or animals. |
| Teratology | n. | Affectation of sublimity; bombast. |
We have 3 clues for the answer “TERATOLOGY”
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| Science dealing with monstrosities. | 1 answer |
| the study of malformations, monstrosities or serious deviations from the normal type in organisms | 1 answer |
| Tale | 45 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
A moving of the mind or soul; excitement of the feelings,
whether pleasing or painful; disturbance or agitation of mind caused by
a specific exciting cause and manifested by some sensible effect on the
body.
Hint 2 anagram
MTOOINE
Hint 3 another clue
A FEELING OF GREAT ELATION
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Sentences with TERATOLOGY (5)
When Pare, for example, pictures a monster, we may distrust his art, his artist, or his engraver, and make all due allowance for his primitive knowledge of teratology, coupled with the exaggerations and inventions of the wonder-lover; but when he describes in his own writing what he or his confreres have seen on the battle-field or in the dissecting room, we think, within moderate limits, we owe him credence.
Early Teratology.--Besides such cases as the foregoing, we find the medieval writers report likely instances of terata, as, for instance, Rhodiginus, who speaks of a monster in Italy with two heads and two bodies; Lycosthenes saw a double monster, both components of which slept at the same time; he also says this creature took its food and drink simultaneously in its two mouths.
Scientific Teratology.--About the first half of the eighteenth century what might be called the positive period of teratology begins.
From the beginning of the second half of the last century to the present time may be termed the scientific epoch of teratology.
From the appearance of the treatise by Geoffroy-Saint-Hilaire, teratology has made enormous strides, and is to-day well on the road to becoming a science.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1949).