[mod. f. Gr. ἀνόργαν-ος without organs + -(O)LOGY; negative form (ἀν priv.) of ORGANOLOGY.] That one of the two great divisions of Natural Science which relates to inorganic objects, and phenomena explicable by mechanical and chemical principles.
1876. trans. Haeckel’s Hist. Creat., I. 6. Anorganology, or the Science of Anorgana (Mineralogy, Geology, Meteorology, &c.). Ibid., I. v. 102. In the whole of Anorganology … all phenomena are said to be explicable merely by mechanism.
