Ægyptology

English

Noun

Ægyptology (uncountable)

1. Obsolete spelling of Egyptology
   • 1859, Edward Edwards, “The Town Libraries of the United States”, in Memoirs of Libraries: Including a Handbook of Library Economy (Burt Franklin Biography & Reference Series; number 72), volume II, New York, N.Y.: Burt Franklin, book III (The Libraries of the United States of America), section “The Classification of the Astor Library”, page 224:

     It contained at the opening 2100 volumes, including the best works on Ægyptology (to use the fasionable phrase) and on the Oriental languages,—some of them of great value and rarity.

   • 1879 November, “The Late Joseph P. Thompson, D.D.”, in H[enry] S[hipton] Drayton, N[elson] Sizer, editors, The Phrenological Journal and Life Illustrated. A Repository of Science, Literature, and General Intelligence, […]., volume LXVIII, number 5 (whole 492), London: S. R. Wells & Co., […], page 249, column 2:

     Dr. [Joseph Parrish] Thompson’s last published work, which discusses the relations of the working classes and their improvement, appeared but a short time before his death, and he has doubtless left manuscripts of value relating to Ægyptology and physical science.

   • 1892, C[harles] T[homas] Paske, Frederick G[eorge] Aflalo, “On Sea-fishing in Particular. […]”, in The Sea and the Rod: […], London: Chapman and Hall, Ld., page 33:

     Professors of Ægyptology have indeed given us a clue; yet one would hardly imagine the Nile a safe place for angling, except from a boat.