Meaning of cynology | Babel Free

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The study of dogs.

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“Professor Mills has done excellent work in his course on "Cynology, the Dog and his Diseases," a subject hitherto only taught incidentally in any college ...”

“1951, The American Mercury, Students of cynology can trace in the dictionary the dog's remarkable rise in the public esteem in this century.”

“1985, The Complete Dog Book, published by the American Kennel Club, The annals of cynology make no further mention of the breed until 1901 when a combined Rottweiler and Leonberger Club was formed.”

“1990, Austin Farrer, in his introduction to G. W. Leibniz’ Theodicy; quoted in Charles Taliaferro’s 2005 Evidence and Faith, Now neither probatology nor cynology could hope to be universal — the world is not all sheep nor all dog: it would have to be hylology; ...”

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