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[mod. f. Gr. ϕύσις nature + -γραϕία description, -graphy: cf. F. physiographie (1812).]
1. A description of nature, or of natural phenomena or productions generally.
1828–32Webster, Physiography, a description of nature, or the science of natural objects. Journ. of Science. a1834Coleridge in Lit. Rem. (1838) III. 158 The ignorance of natural science, their physiography scant in fact, and stuffed out with fables. 1840J. H. Green Vital Dynamics 101 The office of..Physiography is to enumerate and delineate the effects and products of nature as they appear. 1878Huxley Physiogr. Pref. 6, I undertook to deliver twelve lectures on natural phenomena in general; and I borrowed the title of ‘Physiography’..for my subject, inasmuch as I wished to draw a clear line of demarcation, both as to matter and method, between it and what is commonly understood by Physical Geography. 1891E. Hull (title) Physiography: an introduction to the Study of Nature.
2. A description of the nature of a particular class of objects (in quot., of minerals).
[1873Rosenbusch (title) Mikroskopische Physiographie der petrographisch wichtigen Mineralien.] 1888J. P. Iddings (title) Microscopical Physiography of the Rock-making Minerals:..By H. Rosenbusch. Translated and abridged.
3. Physical geography.
1873J. Geikie Gt. Ice Age xiii. 176 To restore the physiography of the land during successive stages of the glacial epoch. 1877― Elem. Lessons in Phys. Geog. 3 note, This term [physical geography] as here used is synonymous with Physiography, which has been proposed in its stead. 1895Educat. Rev. Nov. 353 Physiography on the other hand treats of the science of earth-sculpture, viewed in the light of systematic processes. |