| onto-, ont- (Greek: a being, individual; being, existence).ontogeny, ontogenetic, ontogenetically: 1. the course of development of an individual organism.  2. The history or science of the development of the individual being; embryology. ontologism: The doctrine that we have an immediate and certain knowledge of God.
 ontography, ontographic: A descripion of the nature and essence of things.
 ontology, ontological, ontologically, ontologist: The philosophical study of the nature of being.
 ontonomy: The science of being.
 ontosophy: The knowledge of being; ontology.
 ontotheology, ontotheological: The cognition of a Supreme Being from bare conceptions.
 paleontology: The study of ancient life on earth; the study of fossils.
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