Definitions for palaetiology

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. paletiology, palaetiology(noun)

    the explanation of past events in terms of scientific causes (as geological causes)

Webster Dictionary

  1. Palaetiology(noun)

    the science which explains, by the law of causation, the past condition and changes of the earth


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