cereology
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Noun
cereology (plural cereologies)
- The investigation of or practice of creating crop circles.
- 1990, in New Scientist, v.128 Oct-Dec, page 61
- […] the array of experts who have collaborated to found the Centre for Crop Circle Studies and co-author The Crop Circle Enigma, the parents of cereology […].
- 1991, "It Happens in the Best Circles", Time, Sep 23, 1991
- A new scientific discipline, cereology, emerged. It is practiced by members of the Circles Effect Research Unit, a privately funded group […].
- 1991, "Editorial Notes", The Cereologist, 5, quoted in Gordon Stein, The Encyclopedia of the Paranormal (1996), page 185
- The result of all this has been to throw the world of cereology into a state of total confusion.
- 2003, Colin Andrews, Stephen J. Spignesi, Crop Circles: Signs of Contact, page 29
- The world needed to be educated about the mysteries of cereology, and that knowledge base had not been disseminated widely enough for my more "unusual" theories to be accepted, […].
- 1990, in New Scientist, v.128 Oct-Dec, page 61