epigraphyn.
/ɪˈpɪɡrəfi/ 1. Inscriptions collectively.
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1863 D. Wilson Prehistoric Ann. Scotl. (ed. 2) II. iv. ii. 215 Its philological features appear to be equally foreign to Irish epigraphy.
1877 J. Northcote Catacombs i. vi. 113 The language of Christian epigraphy was not created in a day.
1882 Contemp. Rev. Dec. 921 (note) The records of epigraphy constitute a fair test of the progress of Christianity as far as the upper classes are concerned.
2. The science concerned with the interpretation, classification, etc. of inscriptions. Often in narrower sense: The palæography of inscriptions.
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society > communication > writing > study or science of written symbols > [noun] > study of inscriptions
epigraphy1863
1863 Sat. Rev. 18 July 95 The science of epigraphy..seems still, as far as Britain is concerned, to be quite in its infancy.
1885 Athenæum No. 2985. 45 Aramaic epigraphy has made startling progress in the course of the year.
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