[f. AUTO- + -LOGY.] Self-knowledge, scientific study of oneself.
1633. Featly, in P. Fletcher, Purple Isl. To Readers. He that would learn Theologie must first studie autologic. The way to God is by our selves.
c. 1645. Howell, Lett. (1650), III. 16. Well vers’d in Autology, in that lesson Nosce Teipsum.
1873. D. Hamilton (title), Autology: an inductive system of mental science. Ibid., 3. This system … is called Autology because it is man’s own knowing of himself.
