[f. Gr. σοφία.] (See quot. 1899.)
1898. J. W. Powell, 19th Ann. Rep. Bureau Amer. Ethnol., p. xii. The sciences of esthetology, technology, sociology, philology, and sophiology. Ibid. (1899), Ibid., 20th Ann. Rep., p. clxxi. Sophiology, or the science of activities designed to give instruction.