[f. Gr. ἀρχ-ή beginning, origin; government + -(O)LOGY.] a. Doctrine of the origin of things. b. Science of government.

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1825.  Coleridge, Rem. (1836), II. 339. In contra-distinction from the Hebrew archology on the one side, and from the Phœnician on the other.

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1877.  Sat. Rev., 27 Oct., 530/2 (D.). That which Mr. Blakeslee, with a somewhat clumsy pedantry, calls Archology, meaning the science of government.

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