rare. [f. mod.L. zōologia ZOOLOGY + -ER1; cf. astrologer.] = ZOOLOGIST.
1663. Boyle, Usef. Exp. Nat. Philos., II. ii. 46. As the Naturalist may thus illustrate Pathologie as a Chymist, so may he do the like as a Zoologer.
1766. Swinton, in Phil. Trans., LVII. 112. That these bodies ever ascend fifty or sixty feet, has not … been yet observed by any Zoologer.
1884. Prospectus of Brehm’s ‘Life of Animals.’ Dr. Afr. Edm. Brehm, the eminent zoologer.
