aristological

English

Adjective

aristological (not comparable)

1. pertaining to aristology
   • 1836, The Quarterly Review (London), page 466:

     Surrey and Sussex are the counties for the capon — and also for the same animal in his more natural though less aristological condition;* Norfolk and Suffolk, for turkeys and geese.

   • 1846, The New Monthly Magazine and Humorist, page 480:

     The repast is invariably followed by the kalliyun; but wine, even of Shiraz, should not be partaken of till nightfall, and is better avoided altogether when the aristological student is “dining out,” that is to say, by the way-side.

   • 1871, Belgravia, page 345:

     It is an aristological triumph. The Romans, as all men know, dined in their later days on a stupendous scale, and defied all the rules of aristology by their abominable excesses.

   • 1873, Mortimer Collins, Squire Silchester's Whim, page 191:

     and a capital dinner they had. You don't get moor mutton with hot laver sauce every day. The author is inhibited by publishers and critics from aristological observations, or he would here describe a good Devonshire dinner.