a more etymological form of TAXONOMY. So Taxinomic a. = TAXONOMIC; Taxinomist = TAXONOMIST.
1865. Bendyshe, trans. Blumenbach’s Anthropol. Treat., Pref. 11. Truths whose importance no one can dispute in anthropological taxinomy.
1866. Reader, 15 Dec., 1066. Those sciences of life which modern teaching has, with inexact taxinomy, and worse Greek, termed Biology.
1899. Nature, 21 Sept., 489/2. The position that all taxinomy (which form he prefers, on etymological grounds, to the more usual ‘taxonomy’) must conform to logical requirements. Ibid. Labours of scientific taxinomists. Ibid., 490/1. All who engage in taxinomic work.
