rare–0. [irreg. f. Gr. τύπτειν to strike + -OLOGY.] The theory or subject of spirit-rapping. So Typtological a., pertaining to typtology; Typtologist, a producer of, or believer in, spirit-rappings.
In recent Dicts.
1900. St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 12 Aug., 32/2. The young Alexis Mirbel, who, by a typtological dictation, reproached his mother for having followed the medical prescription which he gave her a month previously.
1905. N. Y. Times Rev. of Book, 1 July, 1–2. It is not generally considered respectable to acknowledge one’s faith in metaphysical phenomena such as typtology, luminous phenomena, psycho-sensory phenomena, spiritistic communications, and the long-sounding etceteras of psychical research.
