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The science of mountains; orography.

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  • OROGRAPHY
    That branch of science which treats of mountains and mountain systems; orology; as, the orography of Western Europe.
  • SCIENCE
    1. Knowledge; lnowledge of principles and causes; ascertained truth of facts. If we conceive God's or science, before the creation, to be extended to all and every part of the world, seeing everything as it is, . . . his science or sight from all
  • PRESCIENCE
    Knowledge of events before they take place; foresight. God's certain prescience of the volitions of moral agents. J. Edwards.
  • OMNISCIENCE
    The quality or state of being omniscient; -- an attribute peculiar to God. Dryden.
  • UNSCIENCE
    Want of science or knowledge; ignorance. If that any wight ween a thing to be otherwise than it is, it is not only unscience, but it is deceivable opinion. Chaucer.
  • CONSCIENCE
    consciens, p.pr. of conscire to know, to be conscious; con- + scire 1. Knowledge of one's own thoughts or actions; consciousness. The sweetest cordial we receive, at last, Is conscience of our virtuous actions past. Denham. 2. The faculty, power,
  • CONSCIENCED
    Having a conscience. "Soft-conscienced men." Shak.
  • NESCIENCE
    Want of knowledge; ignorance; agnosticism. God fetched it about for me, in that absence and nescience of mine. Bp. Hall.
  • CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
    A system of healing disease of mind and body which teaches that all cause and effect is mental, and that sin, sickness, and death will be destroyed by a full understanding of the Divine Principle of Jesus' teaching and healing. The system
  • INSCIENCE
    Want of knowledge; ignorance.
  • CONSCIENCELESS
    Without conscience; indifferent to conscience; unscrupulous. Conscienceless and wicked patrons. Hookre.
  • HOROGRAPHY
    1. An account of the hours. Chaucer. 2. The art of constructing instruments for making the hours, as clocks, watches, and dials.
  • METEOROGRAPHY
    The registration of meteorological phenomena.
  • CHOROGRAPHY
    the mapping or description of a region or district. The chorography of their provinces. Sir T. Browne.

 

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