adjective
-·gier, -·gi·est dull or sluggish, as from overeating
Origin of logy
from uncertain or unknown; perhaps Dutch log, heavy, dull
adjective
- The definition of logy is slowed down or groggy.
- An example of logy is a family after eating a big Thanksgiving dinner.
- An example of logy is the disoriented feeling after a long sleep.
- Logy is defined as a particular branch or field.
An example of logy used as a suffix is in the word biology, the study of living matter.
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logy
-logy
- a (specified kind of) speaking: eulogy
- the science, doctrine, or theory of: biology, theology
Origin of -logy
Middle English -logie from Old French from Classical Latin -logia from Classical Greek from logos, word: see logicWebster's New World College Dictionary, Fifth Edition Copyright © 2014 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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logy
adjective
lo·gi·er, lo·gi·estCharacterized by lethargy; sluggish.
Origin of logy
Perhaps from Dutch log heavy or variant of English loggy heavy, sluggish from log 1-logy
or -ology
suffix
- Discourse; expression: phraseology.
- Science; theory; study: dermatology; sexology.
Origin of -logy
Middle English -logie from Old French from Latin -logia from Greek -logiā ( from logos word, speech ; see leg- in Indo-European roots.) and from -logos one who deals with ( from legein to speak ; see leg- in Indo-European roots.)THE AMERICAN HERITAGE® DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, FIFTH EDITION by the Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries. Copyright © 2016, 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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Origin
Attested from the 19th century, of uncertain origin, perhaps from Dutch log "heavy, dull".
Noun
(plural logies)
- Terms formed with the -logy suffix.
Origin
Nominalization of the -logy suffix.
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Sentence Examples
- Religion, therefore, is earlier than theo logy.
- If N = a p, then p is called the logarithm of N to the base a, and is written logy N.
- In their theory of a triple manifestation of an impersonal deity, the Brahmanical theologians, as we have seen, had indeed elaborated a doctrine which might have seemed to form a reasonable, authoritative creed for logy.
- Psycho- of the second and third divisions have been treated by logy.
- No doubt the Phoenicians had their legends and myths to account for the origin of man and the universe; to some extent these would Myth R e!,, o logy have resembled the ideas embodied in the book of and Genesis.
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