lithographn.
/ˈlɪθə(ʊ)ɡrɑːf/, /ˈlɪθə(ʊ)ɡraf/, U.S. /ˈlɪθəˌɡræf/ 1. A lithographic print. Also attributive.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > printmaking > surface and planographic printing > lithography > [noun] > print
lithograph1828
retransfer1838
autolithograph1842
lithotint1843
chromolithograph1860
oleograph1873
chromo1874
chromolith1884
litho1890
lithotype1890
oleo1921
oleolithograph1939
lithoprint1969
1828 B. Disraeli Voy. Capt. Popanilla ix. 96 It was a sublime lithograph.
1839 M. R. Mitford in A. G. L'Estrange Life M. R. Mitford (1870) III. vii. 98 We have an exquisite lithograph of Lucas's portrait of my father.
1839 C. F. Briggs Harry Franco I. xiii. 90 Augustus had travelled in foreign parts, for he had drummed in Arkansas, and collected in the lithograph cities of the west.
1846 N. F. Moore Hist. Sk. Columbia Coll. 23 These streets, probably, like those of many lithograph cities of recent date, existed only upon paper.
1868 M. E. Grant Duff Polit. Surv. 179 Melancholy lithographs represent to us a long-faced, square-browed man.
1970 Oxf. Compan. Art 666/1 Lithographs have..taken on a number of appearances, ranging from simple linear designs made with pen or crayon to colour prints with the most varied effects of transparency and texture.
2. An inscription on stone.Apparently an isolated use.
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1859 J. G. Whittier Rock in El Ghor iv The graven wonders pay No tribute to the spoiler, Time! Unchanged the awful lithograph Of power and glory undertrod.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
lithographv.
/ˈlɪθə(ʊ)ɡrɑːf/, /ˈlɪθə(ʊ)ɡraf/, U.S. /ˈlɪθəˌɡræf/ 1. transitive. To print from stone; to produce by a lithographic process; in first quot. to make a lithographic portrait of. Also absol. or intransitive.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > printmaking > surface and planographic printing > lithography > lithograph [verb (transitive)]
lithographize1821
lithograph1825
chromolithograph1862
autolithograph1874
chromo1877
litho1934
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > printmaking > surface and planographic printing > lithography > lithograph [verb (transitive)] > make lithographic portrait of
lithograph1825
1825 W. Hone Every-day Bk. (1826) I. 1457 This personage has obtained himself to be sketched and lithographed.
1853 H. Douglas Ess. Mil. Bridges (ed. 3) iii. 93 Of this work, the part relating to bridges was, in 1850, lithographed at the Royal Engineer Establishment at Chatham.
1859 J. Lang Wanderings in India 235 This native print..was lithographed in the Oordoo language.
2. To write or engrave on stone. rare.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > plastic art > sculpture or carving > incising or intaglio > incise (marks or figures) [verb (transitive)]
writeeOE
gravec1275
raspc1400
insculp?a1475
insculpt1487
scrape1532
sculp?1533
engrave1542
enchase1579
incarve1596
engraven1605
trencha1616
scratch1644
style1864
lithograph1872
scribe1896
1872 J. Fergusson Rude Stone Mon. 73 If they could have written to any primeval ‘Times’, they would not have taken such pains to lithograph their victory on the spot.
Derivatives
ˈlithographed adj.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > printmaking > surface and planographic printing > lithography > [adjective]
lithographic1813
lithographed1826
litho1896
lithotinted1969
1826 B. Disraeli Vivian Grey I. ii. x. 151 A bundle of Stewart Newton's beauties, languishing, and lithographed.
1829 H. C. Robinson Diary 13 Aug. (1967) 102 Knebel had shown me a lithographed manuscript.
1841 S. Warren Ten Thousand a-Year III. 407 A lithographed likeness of his odious face.
1851 Official Descriptive & Illustr. Catal. Great Exhib. IV. 1213 Specimens of gilt, lithographed, and coloured borders.
1880 V. Ball Jungle Life India xii. 535 I bought several lithographed books in the Urdu language.
1890 Athenæum 21 June 802/3 It is proposed to publish in lithographed facsimile a manuscript volume of recipes.
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