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geographic, a. and n.|dʒiːəʊˈgræfɪk|
[ad. Gr. γεωγραϕικ-ός, f. γεωγράϕος geograph. Cf. F. géographique.]
A. adj. = geographical. Now somewhat rare, exc. in geographic latitude: the angle made with the plane of the equator by a perpendicular to the surface of the earth at any point. (In quot. 1630 = versed in geography.)
1630Davenant Just Ital. i. C 1 b, The Geographicke Captaine shall no more Studie the Town Mappe. 1655Stanley Hist. Philos. 1. i. (1701) 60/1 He first set forth a Geographick Table. 1669Gale Crt. Gentiles i. iii. ii. 31 The Geographic descriptions, which the ancient Pagan Historians give of the dispersion of Noah's Posteritie. 1719Halley in Phil. Trans. XXX. 985 So that in a round Number we may conclude it to have been just 60 Geographic or 69 Statute Miles above the Earth's Surface. a1797H. Walpole Mem. Geo. II (1847) III. ii. 35 When the affairs of this little spot, which we call Britain, shall appear of no more importance than our island itself in a geographic picture. 1853Th. Ross Humboldt's Trav. III. xxxii. 381 note, The ‘geographic stones’ (piedras mapajas) of the Orinoco..contain streaks of dark green mica irregularly disposed. 1879Newcomb & Holden Astron. 203 It will be observed that it is the geocentric and not the geographic latitude which gives the true position of the observer relative to the earth's centre.
B. n. pl. geoˈgraphics rare (Gr. τὰ γεωγραϕικά), geographical science; † a treatise on this.
1610Holland Camden's Brit. ii. Irel. 65 You may see if you list to compare his Geographicks with his booke of Great Construction. 1831Carlyle Sart. Res. (1858) 108 Statistics, Geographics, Topographics came, through the Eye, almost of their own accord. |