combining element from Gr. τεχνικός (see TECHNIC). Technicology, = TECHNOLOGY (senses 1 and 2). Technico-philist, nonce-wd. [Gr. -φιλος -loving], a lover of technicalities.
1826. H. Drummond, Elem. Propositions on the Currency (ed. 4), 22. It might be admitted, that the subject is dry; but the elements of every subject are always dry; all grammar is dry; mere *technicology must be dry.
1849. Sears, Regeneration, III. xii. (1859), 242. The barren technicologies of schools and sects.
1880. W. Senior, Trav. & Trout in Antipodes, 80. Reading out the botanical technicology.
1884. Manch. Exam., 17 May, 4/8. Schools and museums of technicology scattered over the Continent.
1861. Zoologist, Ser. I. XIX. 7299. This word … has the … merit, always prized by *technicophilists, of being more difficult to pronounce.
