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▪ I. stenograph, n.|ˈstɛnəgrɑːf, -æ-|
[f. Gr. στενό-ς narrow + -graph. Cf. F. sténographe stenographer.]
1. A shorthand report. rare.
1856Emerson Eng. Traits, The ‘Times’ Wks. (Bohn) II. 118, I saw the reporters' room, in which they redact their hasty stenographs.
2. A shorthand typewriting machine.
1891Century Dict., Stenograph,..2. A stenographic machine.
▪ II. stenograph, v.|ˈstɛnəgrɑːf, -æ-|
[Back-formation from stenographer; perh. after F. sténographier.]
trans. To write in shorthand, to represent by stenography; also absol. Hence stenographed ppl. a.
1821Lives Scott. Poets I. 62 The contracted, stenographed, blurred..state in which their manuscripts have been consigned..to Printer's Readers. 1865Morn. Star 18 Jan., It is equally possible to stenograph by the pantelegraphic machine with marvellous rapidity. 1872Daily News 31 July, The conversation of M. St. Hilaire might be stenographed straight off. 1903R. D. Shaw Pauline Epist. iv. ii. 439 If Paul dictated the letters, then, to use Renan's phrase, we have a kind of ‘stenographed conversation’. |