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pantoˈgraphical, a.
[See -ical.]
= prec. 1.
1828Webster, Pantographical, pertaining to [or] performed by a pantograph. 1831Carlyle Germ. Poetry in Misc. Ess. (1872) III. 243 We have no original portrait here, but a pantagraphical reduced copy of some foreign sketches.
Hence pantoˈgraphically adv.: (a) by means of or in the manner of a pantograph; (b) in the manner of a general description.
a.1884in Stormonth. 1911E. C. Worden Nitrocellulose Industry II. xiv. 697 These enamels may be closely imitated..by taking a given pattern, enlarging it pantographically or otherwise, [etc.]. 1945F. J. Camm et al. Newnes Plastics Manual xii. 135 This machine [sc. the ‘Keller’ die-sinking machine] will produce all kinds of dies and jigs by a process of copying from a pattern pantographically.
b.1890in Cent. Dict. |