Ringing satisfied everything I associated with campanology initially (8)
I believe the answer is:
metallic
'ringing' is the definition.
Both the definition and answer are adjectives. Maybe they are linked in a way I don't understand?
'satisfied everything i associated with campanology initially' is the wordplay.
'satisfied' becomes 'met' (as in 'met the conditions of his contract').
'everything' becomes 'all' (all things).
'associated with' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'initially' indicates taking the first letters.
The initial letter of 'campanology' is 'c'.
'met'+'all'+'i'+'c'='METALLIC'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for metallic that I've seen before include "Characteristic of a shiny solid element" , "Relating to shiny chemical element" , "This car paint say, gives a shiny surface" , "Like good conductor" , "sound of a bell?" .)