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zoographer|zəʊˈɒgrəfə(r)|
[f. Gr. ζῷον animal + -γράϕος depicting, describing; see -grapher.]
1. One who describes animals; a descriptive zoologist.
1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. iv. i. 180 One kinde of Locust..by Zoographers called mantis. 1677Plot Oxfordsh. 104 The Zoographer Gesner. 1688Boyle Final Causes ii. 61 Zoographers observe, That the Camelion has a very uncommon structure of his visive Organs. 1711Brit. Apollo IV. No. 17. 1/2 Others [sc. beasts having only one horn] are mentioned by Zoographers.
2. A painter or depicter of animals; a painter or artist in general.
(In the latter use repr. Gr. ζωγράϕος (see zoograph): not an Eng. sense.)
1656Blount Glossogr., Zoographer..a Painter or one that draws the pictures of beasts. [Citing Sir T. Browne: see 1646 in 1.] 1814Sporting Mag. XLIV. 66 This very clever artist and zoographer. 1814W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. XXXVII. 406 The earlier writers on art,..who flourished before the age of Trajan and the Antonines, constantly entitle their books on zoographers, on zoography—this was their only usual denomination for painting, as if still life did not merit the name. |