kyriology

English

Etymology

Ancient Greek κύριος (kúrios, “literal”) +‎ -ology.

Noun

kyriology (uncountable)

1. The use of literal or simple expressions, as distinguished from the use of figurative or obscure ones.
   • 1878, Charles Porterfield Krauth, William Fleming, Henry Calderwood, A Vocabulary of the Philosophical Sciences:

     KYRIOLEXY, KYRIOLOGY (Gr.), the use of literal expressions, as opposed to figurative […]

Synonyms

• kyriolexy

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “kyriology”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Derived terms

• kyriological