Obs. nonce-wd. [f. TIR-O + -OLOGY.] Properly, the science of tiroes; in quots. used for Elementary knowledge.
1560. Becon, Cast. Comfort, Wks. II. 106. Some of the papistes … where so euer they finde Ignis, take it for Purgatory streyghtwayes. O noble doctors of Tyrology, rather than of Theology. Ibid. (1563), Display. Popish Mass, ibid. III. 39. But where learned ye this tyrologye? For theologie is it not.
