graphologyn.
/ɡrəˈfɒlədʒi/, /ɡraˈfɒlədʒi/, U.S. /ɡrəˈfɑlədʒi/ 1. The study of handwriting.
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society > communication > writing > study or science of written symbols > [noun] > study of handwriting
graphology1882
1882 Athenæum 23 Sept. 402/3 I work with a method and principles of criticism different from his in comparative graphology and palæography.
1886 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Graphology, a study or description of handwriting in relation to the changes from the ordinary which occur in some diseases, such as general paralysis.
1960 M. Spark Bachelors i. 11 Ronald got a job in a small museum of graphology in the City... To Ronald's museum came criminologists from abroad, people wishing to identify the dates of manuscripts, or the handwriting attached to documents of doubt.
2. esp. The art or science of inferring a person's character, disposition, and aptitudes from the peculiarities of his handwriting.
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society > communication > writing > study or science of written symbols > [noun] > study of handwriting > study of character traits from handwriting
graphiology1854
graphology1886
1886 Pall Mall Gaz. 15 Feb. 10/2 He sought in graphology indications of capacity and disposition.
1887 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. May 642/1 Phrenology and graphology are admitted to take rank as acknowledged sciences.
1891 J. F. Nisbet Insanity of Genius 149 Graphology contains no doubt a substratum of truth.
3. The system of graphic formulæ; the notation used for graphs.
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the world > relative properties > number > graph or diagram > [noun] > graph > system of notation
graphology1878
1878 J. J. Sylvester in Amer. Jrnl. Math. 1 79 Any tendency to disturb or complicate the existing graphology.
4. Linguistics. The study of written and printed symbols and of writing systems (see quot. 1964).
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society > communication > writing > study or science of written symbols > [noun]
alphabetics1865
graphemics1951
graphology1961
1961 A. McIntosh in Archivum Linguisticum XIII. 107 I have used the word ‘graphology’ in a sense which is intended to answer, in the realm of written language, to that of ‘phonology’ in the realm of spoken language.
1962 D. Diringer Writing 21 Graphology, ‘the science of writing’, is more concerned with the subject from the biological and psychological points of view than in terms of its history.
1964 M. A. K. Halliday et al. Ling. Sci. ii. 50 Graphology..includes orthography, punctuation, and anything else that is concerned with showing how a language uses its graphic resources to carry its grammatical and lexical patterns.
Derivatives
graphoˈlogic adj.
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graphological1891
graphologic1895
1895 Daily News 4 Dec. 6/6 Important graphologic researches.
graphoˈlogical adj. of or pertaining to graphology.
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society > communication > writing > study or science of written symbols > [adjective]
graphological1891
society > communication > writing > study or science of written symbols > [adjective] > study of handwriting
graphological1891
graphologic1895
1891 N.Y. Tribune 23 Dec. 3/5 (Funk) The afternoon session of the trial was taken up with the testimony of the graphological experts.
1964 M. A. K. Halliday et al. Ling. Sci. ii. 50 The ‘graphological’ level of language, whatever the nature of the script, is characterized by its own distinctive pattern, just as is the level of phonology.
graphoˈlogically adv.
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graphologically1964
1964 A. McIntosh in Archivum Linguisticum XVI. 79 These two graphs should at least be recognised as graphologically (even if not graphemically) contrastive.
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