rare. [f. L. cētus or Gr. κῆτος + -λογία: see -LOGY.] That part of zoology which treats of the whales. Hence Cetological a., of or pertaining to cetology; Cetologist, one versed in cetology.
1846. Eclectic Mag., Aug., 556/2. A most fortunate case, which befel Mr. Beale, the well-known cetologist, on a South Sea whaling voyage in 1831.
1851. H. Melville, Moby-Dick, xxxi. 147. My object here is simply to project the draught of a systematization of cetology.
