palaetiology
English edit
Etymology edit
palaeo- + aetiology. Coined by William Whewell.
Noun edit
palaetiology (uncountable)
- (geology) The science that explains, by the law of causation, the past condition and changes of the Earth.
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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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “palaetiology”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)