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brachygraphy|bræˈkɪgrəfɪ|
Also 7 -graphie, and (erron.) 7 brachyo-, 7–8 brachi-.
[a. F. brachygraphie, f. Gr. βραχύ-ς short + -γραϕία writing.]
The art or practice of writing with abbreviations or with abbreviated characters; shorthand, stenography. Also attrib. Obs. except as a designation of certain old systems of shorthand, esp. that of Gurney (see quot. 1778).
1590P. Bale (title) The art of brachygraphie, that is, to write as fast as a man speaketh treatably. 1600Nashe Summer's Last W. in Hazl. Dodsl. VIII. 41 If I wist there were any such knavery, or Peter Balis brachygraphy. 1667E. Chamberlayne St. Gt. Brit. i. iii. x. (1743) 226 Therein are taught..Calligraphy, Brachigraphy or Shorthand, etc. 1778J. Gurney Brachygr. Pref. 1 Brachygraphy..is extremely antient, (for we read of its being practised in the Roman Senate). 1884Leeds Merc. Wkly. Suppl. 15 Nov. 8/3 The system of brachygraphy in which the contents of the volume were shrouded.
b. fig.
1656tr. Hobbes' Elem. Philos. (1839) 316 The brachygraphy of the analytics, and an art..of registering with brevity..the inventions of geometricians. 1715tr. Pancirollus' Rerum Mem. II. x. 334 These Curiosities are the Brachigraphy or Short-hand of Art.
braˈchygrapher, a shorthand-writer; brachyˈgraphic, -al, of or pertaining to brachygraphy.
1633T. Adams Comm. 2 Pet. i. 9 By brachygraphical characters they will take a sermon verbatim. 1654Gayton Fest. Notes I. 8 (R.) He asked the brachygrapher, whether he wrote the notes of that sermon. 1782Gentl. Mag. LII. 219 Memoirs of the most eminent brachygraphers. |