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noun
Descriptive aspects and practices of early antiquarianism, and later archaeology in general.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
An interdisciplinary field that studies various, mutually correlated aspects and properties of ancient manuscripts, early printed materials and other textual historical sources, thus preparing and producing scholarly descriptions and editions.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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History
Formed as archae- + -o- + -graphy, after the Ancient Greek ἀρχαιογράφος (arkhaiográphos, “the writing of antiquities”).
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