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-logy -lo*gysuff. [Gr. ?, fr. lo`gos word, discourse, fr. le`gein to speak. See {Logic}.] A combining form denoting a discourse, treatise, doctrine, theory, science; as, theology, geology, biology, mineralogy. [1913 Webster]

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  • logy — (adj.) dull and heavy, 1848, Amer.Eng., perhaps from Du. log heavy, dull + Y (Cf. y) (2); Cf. M.L.G. luggich sleepy, sluggish. Or perhaps a variant of LOGGY (Cf. loggy) …   Etymology dictionary

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