geogony

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noun

The branch of science dealing with the formation of the Earth.

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Meanings

noungeogony (countable and uncountable, plural geogonies)

plural geogonies

  1. obsoleteuncountableThe branch of science dealing with the formation of the Earth.

    Some writers divide Geology into two branches; 1. Geognosy, or Positive Geology, which embraces only the known facts of the science. 2. Geogony, or Speculative Geology, which attempts to point out the causes of those facts, and the inferences that result from them.

    1847, Edward Hitchcock, Elementary Geology
  2. countableobsoleteA particular account of the formation of the Earth.

    The whole system of modern geology is a reproduction of Brahminical geogonies and Maha Pralayas, or great floods.

    1875, John Muehleisen Arnold, Genesis and Science; Or The First Leaves of the Bible

Origin

From geo- + -gony.

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