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stenographic, a.|stɛnəʊˈgræfɪk|
[f. stenography: see -graphic. Cf. F. sténographique.]
Of, pertaining to, or expressed in stenography.
1681S. Colvil Whigs Supplic. (1710) 14 Greek, Syriack, or Arabick, Or Breviations Stenographick. 1775Ash. 1837Pitman (title) Stenographic Sound-hand. 1888Stevenson Some Gentlemen in Fiction in Scribner's Mag. June 764/1 [My characters] turned their backs on me and walked off bodily; and from that time, my task was stenographic—it was they who spoke. 1907G. Salmon Human Element in Gosp. 111 It is not imagined that the historian made use of stenographic reports.
Hence stenoˈgraphical a., (in the same sense). stenoˈgraphically adv., by means of shorthand.
1656S. Holland Zara ii. v. 112 Reading his unalterable resolvs written (Stenographically) in his face. 1674S. Jeake Arith. (1696) 271 But as the Denominations are various, and therefore must be exprest; so the Stenographical Mantles in which they are wrapt up, are..arbitrary. 1727Bailey vol. II, Stenographical, pertaining to secret writing. 1824T. Molineux (title) The Stenographical Copy-Book. 1906Daily Chron. 22 Mar. 6/7 The staff that stenographically chronicles the House's doings from day to day. |