ghostologyとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /ɡəʊsˈtɒləd͡ʒi/

名詞

ghostology (usually uncountable, plural ghostologies)

1. The knowledge or study of ghosts or spirits; the science of the supernatural; spiritism.
   • a. 1865 (date written; first published 1872 January–August), Nathaniel Hawthorne, edited by Una Hawthorne, Septimius Felton; or The Elixir of Life, Boston, Mass.: James R[ipley] Osgood and Company, published 1872, →OCLC, page 75:

     It did not lessen Septimius's surprise, however, to think that such a singular being was established in the neighborhood without his knowledge; considered as a real occurrence of this world, it seemed even more unaccountable than if it had been a thing of ghostology and witchcraft.

   • 1908, H. Addington Bruce, “The Ghost Seen by Lord Brougham”, in Historic Ghosts and Ghost Hunters‎:

     This, as all students of ghostology are aware, has frequently been the case; and it was precisely the case with the ghost seen by the famous Lord Brougham, […]

   • 1957, William L. Fischer, Critical Notes on Evolution, page 30:

     Experts in ghostology know exactly, where ghosts live, how they behave, how to deal with them, how to make them appear and disappear.

関連する語

• ghostological
• ghostologist

参考

• ghostlore