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‖ perigraphe|pəˈrɪgrəfɪ|
[a. Gr. περιγραϕή line drawn round, f. περί around + γραϕή writing, line.]
†a. An inscription around something. Obs.
b. (See quot. 1753.)
1674S. Jeake Arith. (1696) 86 This piece of Coin..shewed the Vessel in which the Manna was, inscribed with the Perigraphe Shekel Israel. 1753Chambers Cycl. Supp., Perigraphe, a word usually understood to express a careless or inaccurate delineation of any thing: but in Vesalius it is used to express the white lines or impressions that appear in the musculus rectus of the abdomen. [Copied by Webster 1828 with substitution of Perigraph for Perigraphe; whence in subseq. Dictionaries, with a derivative adj. Perigraphic.] 1956‘H. MacDiarmid’ Stony Limits 38 We turn in vain This way and that and but changing perigraphs gain. |