rare. [irreg. f. TIDE sb. + -(O)LOGY.] The study or science that treats of the tides. Hence Tidological a., of or pertaining to tidology.
1834. Whewell, in Todhunter, Acc. Writ. (1876), II. 194. Do not omit to mention what the Liverpool people … have done for Tidology. Ibid. (1840), Philos. Induct. Sci. (1847), II. 509. I have ventured to employ the term Tidology, having been much engaged in tidological researches.
1843. Mill, Logic, VI. iii. § 1. No one doubts that Tidology (as Dr. Whewell proposes to call it) is really a science. Ibid. Tidology, therefore, is not yet an exact science; not from any inherent incapacity of being so, but from the difficulty of ascertaining with complete precision the real derivative uniformities.
