rare. [f. SPECTRO- (in senses 1 and 3 of SPECTRUM) + -LOGY.]
1. The science or study of spectres.
1820. W. Irving, Sketch Bk. (1821), II. 196. The gloom of religious abstraction, and the wildness of their situation,… had filled their imaginations with the frightful chimeras of witchcraft and spectrology.
1827. Hone, Table Bk., I. 710. Spectrology. A Remarkable Narrative.
2. The scientific study of spectra.
1862. Amer. Jrnl. Sci., May, 440. The attention of the French scientific world is wholly fixed on spectrology, for thus do they designate the experiment with the spectroscope of Bunsen and Kirchhof. [Hence in Webster (1864), etc.]
