ghostology

English

Etymology

ghost +‎ -ology

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ɡəʊsˈtɒləd͡ʒi/

Noun

ghostology (usually uncountable, plural ghostologies)

  1. The knowledge, or study of ghosts or spirits; the science of the supernatural; spiritism.
    • 1872, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Septimius Felton; or, the Elixir of Life‎:
      […] it seemed even more unaccountable than if it had been a thing of ghostology and witchcraft.
    • 1908, H. Addington Bruce, “The Ghost Seen by Lord Brougham”, in Historic Ghosts and Ghost Hunters‎:
      This, as all students of ghostology are aware, has frequently been the case; and it was precisely the case with the ghost seen by the famous Lord Brougham, […]
    • 1957, William L. Fischer, Critical Notes on Evolution, page 30:
      Experts in ghostology know exactly, where ghosts live, how they behave, how to deal with them, how to make them appear and disappear.

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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for ghostology in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

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