nonce-wd. [f. TRICK sb. + -OLOGY.] The science of trickery. Hence Trickologist, a trickster.
1723. (title) Trickology, or a Letter of Advice to a Student of Medicine. Ibid., 4. Trickology, which a Greek would name Technology, a Part by far more witty and lucrative than all the other five. Ibid., 20. A serious Sense of Religion … shall never make a good Trickologist.
1881. Clarksville (TN) Weekly Chronicle, 11 June, 3/1. A small boy around town, whom we saw the other day with an infantile rodent, which he was educating up to all the mysteries of trickology.
