combining form of Gr. οὐρανός sky, heaven(s), roof of the mouth, occurring in: a. † uranognosy (see quot.); uranolatry, worship of the heavenly bodies; uranomania, -pathy, -photography, -photometer, -scopian (a fish of the family Uranoscopidæ), -theism (see quots). b. uranostomatoscopy, examination of the hard palate and back of the mouth; also URANOPLASTIC a., -PLASTY.
a. a. 1831. Bentham, Logic, App., Wks. 1843, VIII. 286/2. By *Uranognosy, rather than Astronomy, may that branch of Topography, taken in its largest sense, which remains after the substraction of Geography be designated.
1877. W. H. Rule, Oriental Rec., Mon., 6. *Uranolatry was grown into a system, and the Chaldean or Babylonian astronomy had become a science.
1890. Billings, Med. Dict., II. 723. *Uranomania, monomania involving the idea of a divine or celestial origin or connection; a species of megalomania.
1868. W. Cory, Lett. & Jrnls. (1897), 246. That crenopathy and *uranopathy, that yielding of ourselves to running water and to still clouds.
a. 1909. Woodbury, Encycl. Photogr., 304. *Urano-photography, the photography of celestial spaces.
1876. Nature, 21 Dec., 170/1. The diffuse light of the sky … has recently been a subject of study by M. Wild,… who has endeavoured to measure it with a somewhat complicated instrument devised by him and named a *‘uranophotometer.’
c. 185[?]. Sir J. Richardson’s Mus. Nat. Sci., II. 120/1. *Uranoscopians, or Sky-gazers.
1801. Monthly Mag., XI. 646. *Uranotheism, or the worship of sun, moon, thunder, and meteors.
b. a. 1891. Medical News, XLIX. 559 (Cent.). Phrenopathic uranostomatoscopy. (Recent Dicts. give uranoplegia, -rrhaphy, -schisis, -staphyloplasty, -staphylorraphy.)
