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glossography|glɒˈsɒgrəfɪ|
[ad. F. glossographie, f. glosso- glosso- + -γραϕία writing.]
1. The writing of glosses or commentaries; the compiling of glossaries.
1623Cockeram, Glossographie, an expounding of strange words. 1721–1800Bailey, Glossography, the art of writing a glossary. 1827Pollok Course T. viii. (1860) 216 Glossography itself..scarce more Of folly raved.
2. A description of the tongue.
1842in Dunglison Med. Dict.: and in some later Dicts.
3. A description or grouping of languages.
1889in Century Dict.
Hence ˌglossoˈgraphical a., pertaining to, or of the nature of, glossography.
1727in Bailey vol. II. 1846 in Worcester. |