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monography|məˈnɒgrəfɪ|
[f. Gr. µόνο-ς mono- + γράϕ-ειν to write: see -graphy. In sense 1, it represents mod.L. monographia (18th c.), f. monograph-us (Linnæus), one who writes a treatise on a single genus or species. Cf. F. monographie (1807 in Littré).]
1. = monograph 1. (Obs. in Natural History applications; but still occasionally applied to a treatise on some special subject in other departments of knowledge.)
1773G. White Selborne, To Barrington 20 Nov., My monography of this little domestic and familiar bird. 1777Ibid. 20 May, A good monography of worms would afford much entertainment and information. 1785Sir J. E. Smith in Mem. (1832) I. 133 Schreber is writing a monography on the genus Aster. 1819W. Lawrence Lect. Physiol. Zool. (1822) 22 The best monography we possess in the class Mammalia. 1838J. G. Dowling Eccl. Hist. iii. §3. 208 Monographies (if I may be allowed to naturalize an useful word) or treatises on particular branches, have been still more abundant [in Germany] than works on the general history of the church. 1849R. A. Vaughan in Brit. Q. Rev. May 307 Schleiermacher..wrote also monographies on Anaximander..and Socrates. 1866Merivale Sallust Introd. (ed. 2) 15 The Catilina and Jugurtha are what are denominated in modern times Monographies; i.e. narratives of a detached series of connected events. 1876Fergusson Hist. Ind. & East. Archit. iii. i. 294 In order to write a complete monography of the Kashmiri style, we ought to be able to trace it very much further back than anything in the previous pages enables us to do.
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1828–32Webster, Monography, a description drawn in lines without colors. Qu. should not this be monogram? |