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logograph|ˈlɒgəgrɑːf, -æ-| [f. as prec. + -graph. Cf. Gr. λογογράϕος (see next).] ¶1. Used erroneously for logogriph. Some mod. edd. of Jonson Underwoods lxi. have logographes where the original ed. has logogriphes.
1797Monthly Mag. III. 468 The Masquerade; or, a Collection of New Epigrams, Logographs [etc.]. 2. Phonography. A character or combination of characters representing a word; = logogram 2.
1888I. Pitman Man. Phonography §190. 68. 3. = logotype 1.
1872W. Skeen Early Typography 426 It is an existing book, nearly two hundred years old, one half of which is printed with movable wooden letters, logographs, and words. 4. = logographer 2. rare (in quot. transf.).
1862Latham Channel Isl. iii. xviii. (ed. 2) 417 The philosophy..or mythology of the Welsh bards and logographs. 5. An instrument for giving a graphic representation of speech-sounds.
1879G. B. Prescott Sp. Telephone 295 For recording vocal impulses one of the most sensitive instruments is the logograph, invented by W. H. Barlow, F.R.S. Hence ˈlogograph v. trans., to print with logotypes.
1843Biographical Dict. II. ii. 576 A second edition appeared in 1764 and a third in 1797–9 (which being logographed, or printed with a separately cast type for every word, was reissued in 1801). |