testaceotheologyとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /ˌtɛs.tə.si.oʊ.θiˈɒl.ə.dʒi/, /ˌtɛs.tə.keɪ.oʊ.θiˈɒl.ə.dʒi/

名詞

testaceotheology (uncountable)

1. The "theology of shellfish", or the study of divine or spiritual significance attributed to shellfish, such as clams, oysters, and other mollusks.
   • 1993, Jaques Roger, translated by Robert Ellrich, edited by Keith R. Benson, The Life Sciences in Eighteenth-Century French Thought, Stanford University Press, translation of original in French, page 197:

     Friedrich-Christian Lesser’s Théologie des insectes appeared in two French translation, in 1742 and 1745. But there were not only insects, and the material was inexhaustible: a Lithotheology, a Testaceotheology, a Petinotheology, and an Ichthyotheology all appeared. What had begun as a pious intention became a bookselling enterprise.

   • 2025 January 31, Wikipedia contributors, “Christoph Samuel John”, in English Wikipedia‎, Wikimedia Foundation:

     Chemnitz was a promoter of a form of natural theology known as testaceotheology or the use of molluscs for preaching.