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Cynology vs Cynological - What's the difference?

cynology | cynological |

As a noun cynology

is the study of dogs.

As an adjective cynological is

pertaining to cynology.

cynology

Noun

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  • The study of dogs.
  • * 1892 , The Journal of Comparative Medicine and Veterinary Archives ,
  • Professor Mills has done excellent work in his course on "Cynology , the Dog and his Diseases," a subject hitherto only taught incidentally in any college ...
  • * 1951, The American Mercury ,
  • Students of cynology can trace in the dictionary the dog's remarkable rise in the public esteem in this century.
  • * 1985, The Complete Dog Book , published by the American Kennel Club,
  • The annals of cynology make no further mention of the breed until 1901 when a combined Rottweiler and Leonberger Club was formed.
  • * 1990, Austin Farrer, in his introduction to G. W. Leibniz’ Theodicy''; quoted in Charles Taliaferro’s 2005 ''Evidence and Faith ,
  • Now neither probatology nor cynology could hope to be universal — the world is not all sheep nor all dog: it would have to be hylology; ...

    cynological

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    Adjective

    (-)
  • Pertaining to cynology.