1830 Hist. Eur. inAnn. Reg. 245/2The government was called the *paedarchy (or the regime of children).
1647 J. Noyes Temple Measured 34Some are..unseasonable, ignorant, youthful. This is a *Pedocracy as well as a Democracy.
1900 Speaker 5 May 131/2 Miss Vernon of the *Paidological Bureau.
1894 Educ. News (U.S. ) 14 Apr. 233A *paidologist is one who studies boys. *Paidologistical pertains to *paidology, and *paidologistically is the adverb that refers to the acts of a paidologist while he is treating of paidology paidologistically.
1853 Dunglison Med. Lex. ,*Pædometer, baromacrometer.
1889 Jrnl. Educ. 1 Feb. 75/2The terrors of a cast-iron Code and Inspectors with their *paedometric apparatus.
1857 Mayne Expos. Lex. ,Pædonosologia, term for a description or consideration of the diseases of children: *pedonosology.
1883 W. Leaf in Jrnl. Philol. No. 24. 286Prof. Geddes quotes as a similar ‘*Pædonymic’ the expression ‘Althaea Meleagris’.
Ibid. 287Whether or no the custom of *Paedonymy has left any other trace..must be left to anthropologists to decide.
pædo-
Prefix
- Obsolete spelling of paedo-
Etymology
pæd- + -o-