rare. [In sense 1 f. SPERMO- + -LOGY. In sense 2 ad. Gr. σπερμολογία: cf. SPERMOLOGER.]

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  1.  (See quot. and cf. SPERMATOLOGY.)

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1882.  Imp. Dict., IV. 155/1. Spermology,… that branch of science which investigates sperm or seeds; a treatise on sperm or seeds.

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  2.  An instance of babbling or trifling talk.

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1890.  Earle, Engl. Prose, xii. 485. For historical truth it is on a level with that favorite spermology of the Liberation Society, which seeks to diffuse the notion [etc.].

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