a. [f. as prec. + -AL.]
1. Pertaining to ‘ethology.’ a. According to the Dicts.: Pertaining to ethics. b. In recent use (after J. S. Mill): Pertaining to the science of human character.
1730–6. in Bailey (folio).
1775. in Ash.
1843. Mill, Logic, VI. v. § 6. The ethological consequences of particular circumstances of position.
1883. W. Minto, in Academy, 29 Dec., 425. The son is sufficiently candid for the most exacting student of ethological truth.
2. Pertaining to the scientific study of customs.
1865. Max Müller, Chips (1880), II. xxv. 266. What may be called ethological as distinguished from ethnological researches.
