different between orthodoxly vs taxonomy

English

Etymology

From orthodox +? -ly.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?????d?ksli/

Adverb

orthodoxly (comparative more orthodoxly, superlative most orthodoxly)

1. In a correct or proper way; conventionally; correctly. [from 17th c.]
   • 1778, Abraham Tucker, The Light of Nature Pursued, III.12:

     if, after a season of thoughtlessness, you perceive your understanding on a sudden lively to discern, and your will vigorous to pursue heavenly things, you may orthodoxly conclude there has been an effusion, not that there is one now.

   • 1925, Scudder Klyce, Sins of Science, XXV.1:

     Biology is orthodoxly the part of science that deals directly with the phenomena of living matter.

   • 1930, "Don Juan", Time, 31 Mar 1930:

     So great was Ariel’s success and that of the similar Disraeli that readers might have expected Maurois to treat Shelley's friend and fellow-poet in the same style. But no miniature in enamel is this orthodoxly lengthy, appendixed, annotated biography of Byron.

2. In a religiously orthodox way; in accordance with accepted religious doctrine. [from 17th c.]
   • 1980, Agehananda Bharati, The Ochre Robe:

     He wears a turban, he puts on his sandal mark every morning, he bathes and eats and marries and dies orthodoxly; he probably begets children orthodoxly.

   • 1990, LP Harvey, Islamic Spain, 1250 to 1500, p. 91:

     The teaching here is orthodoxly Islamic, the preoccupation with assessing the relation of works to faith is very much of the European fifteenth century.

Translations

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French taxonomie. Surface analysis taxo- +? -nomy.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /tæk?s?n?mi/
• (US) IPA^(key): /tæk?s??n?mi/
• Rhymes: -?n?mi

Noun

taxonomy (countable and uncountable, plural taxonomies)

1. The science or the technique used to make a classification.
2. A classification; especially, a classification in a hierarchical system.
3. (taxonomy, uncountable) The science of finding, describing, classifying and naming organisms.

Synonyms

• taxonomics
• (science of finding, describing, classifying and naming organisms): alpha taxonomy

Coordinate terms

• nomenclature
• ontology

Derived terms

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