lifelore

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   The knowledge of life or life experiences

   The knowledge of life or life experiences; wisdom.

   • For who is he that shall hinder thee from being good and simple?" Full of high and pure religious thoughts and beautiful lifelore is this sage, [...]
   • The heritage of a language lies in its lifelore and literature.
   • Friends also were supposed to organize the Celebration, which would be "a free-form coming-together (non-sorrowing) of Survivors to share music, games, food, history, personhood — to exchange tokens, totems, lifelore, etc."
2. 2

   The study of life

   The study of life; biology.

   • The students of Biology, or, in simple English, of "Life-Lore,” will find matter of the highest interest in many of the papers read at the recent meetings of the British Medical Association at Glasgow.
   • If we use the term Biology, in its widest sense of Life-lore, to include all the results of the scientific study of living creatures, we must admit that it had its foundations in antiquity.
   • Biology. This term, which literally means 'life-lore,' was first used by Lamarck in a work which appeared in 1801; and it was also used in the following year, to all appearance, independently, by Treviranus.

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