idiomography

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Noun

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idiomography (uncountable)

  1. (rare) The study of idioms in language.
    • 1827, The Foreign Quarterly Review, volume 1, page 392:
      To settle these questions, the science of idiomography should be founded on conventional laws, like the Linnæan system. But can such an idea be now proposed?