α. 1600s authograph, 1600s autographe, 1600s– autograph.
β. 1600s autographa's (plural, in sense A. 1b), 1600s autographum, 1600s–1700s autographon, 1600s– autographa (plural, in sense A. 1b).
单词 | autograph |
释义 | autographn.adj.α. 1600s authograph, 1600s autographe, 1600s– autograph. β. 1600s autographa's (plural, in sense A. 1b), 1600s autographum, 1600s–1700s autographon, 1600s– autographa (plural, in sense A. 1b). A. n. 1. a. A manuscript written in the author's own handwriting. Now esp.: a composer's handwritten musical score. Cf. holograph n. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > written text > [noun] > in person's own hand chirograph1483 autograph1605 holograph1623 idiograph1623 autograph letter1769 AL1868 α. β. 1621 R. Crakanthorpe Def. Constantine i. xv. 368 The back-side of the Autographum of the donation..writ..with his owne hands.1668 H. Savage Balliofergus viii. 10 The Autographum of which Councils' Epistolary Transactions, with the Popes seal affixed, was sent by..the Kings Ambassador.a1734 R. North Examen (1740) Pref. 14 Memoirs..of which he hath the Autographon.1605 T. Cecil Let. 13 Nov. in E. Owen Catal. Manuscripts relating to Wales in Brit. Mus. (1900) I. 131 They wryte ther names Sitsilt and o'r name is wrytte' Cecyll, my gra'dfather wrote it Syssell and so in autographs all ye thir names differ. 1640–4 S. D'Ewes in J. Rushworth Hist. Coll.: Third Pt. (1692) I. 311 Particulars..drawn out of the Autographs themselves. 1708 R. Fleming Christology II. iii. i. 44 The dash of a Pen might have made the K look like an X either in the Autograph, or in some Copy afterwards. 1794 R. J. Sulivan View of Nature II. 238 The Autograph, or original manuscript of the law. 1839 H. Hallam Introd. Lit. Europe III. iii. 163 The letter is imperfect, some sheets of the autograph having been lost. 1892 W. W. Skeat 12 Facs. O.E. MSS. 10 The MS. of Piers Plowman is corrected with minute care, and seems to be an autograph of the author. 1909 Musical Times May 300/2 That rousing chord was an afterthought. It does not appear in the original autograph! 1976 Daily Tel. 8 Mar. 8/3 If the lost autograph of the 32 in C minor had meanwhile surfaced,..with all sforzatos abolished, this fact would have been mentioned. 2003 Jrnl. Musicol. 20 77 Fritzsch published a facsimile of the composer's autograph of the canon. b. With plural agreement. Original manuscripts of books written by the Christian Prophets or Apostles.Although no autographa are known to exist, the possible influence of such originals upon earliest surviving copies has long been debated. ΚΠ β. 1658 T. Carwell Labyrinthus Cantuariensis vii. 83 They may..be examin'd and approv'd by the Authentical Autographa's of the very Apostles. 1659 B. Walton Considerator Considered 61 The autographa of the sacred Penmen. 1670 T. Tenison Creed Mr. Hobbes 369 The Autographa of Moses, and the Prophets have been thought to have perished at the burning of Hierusalem. 1712 H. Ditton Disc. Resurrection Jesus iii. viii. 262 The Attempts of Imposters, must needs have been vain and fruitless, while the Autographa themselves were extant. 1743 J. Seed Disc. Several Important Subj. II. 291 By authentic, he must mean Autographa, the Apostles Hand Writing. 1821 J. Townley Illustr. Biblical Lit. I. ii. i. 81 None of the Autographa, or original manuscripts of the New Testament are now in existence. 1884 E. L. Houghton tr. E. Reuss Hist. Sacred Script. New Test. iii. 368 The value of the Autographa,..for the first Christians, must not be measured by the standard of our critical needs. 1919 Encycl. Americana XVIII. 246/2 The sacred writers or their scribes most likely used ink and rolls of fragile papyrus for the autographa of the New Testament. 1998 J. H. Sailhamer How we got Bible 21 The ‘copies’ that they had..considered to be exact copies of the autographa were not as accurate as they had supposed. 2. a. A person's own signature, esp. one written by a well-known public figure for a fan or collector. Also figurative.Now the usual sense. ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > that which identifies or distinguishes > personal identification > signature > [noun] sign manual1416 hand-writ1483 firm1574 signature1579 significature1625 subscripta1704 autograph1796 moniker1851 John Hancock1885 John Henry1914 1796 Brit. Critic 7 631 The spelling of the name [sc. Shakespeare]..is founded on a mere mistake of Mr. Malone and Mr. Steevens, in tracing his autograph. 1808 Monthly Pantheon 1 665/1 Some learned man's name or autograph, according to the modern fashionable literary nomenclature, is written on the title page. 1848 F. E. Forbes Five Years in China xvii. 290 I asked him for his autograph, but he told me that Sultans never signed but sealed. 1880 Antiquary 25/1 The stamp may usually be depended upon to authenticate the autograph of the franker. 1901 W. O. Fuller What happened to Wigglesworth 85 The rusty blade..would unjoint when you least expected it and write its autograph on the back of your hand. 1927 E. Wallace Feathered Serpent xiii. 169 You'll probably be pulled up by gallery girls who want autographs. 1974 R. Dorson Indy 500 iv. 82 He makes himself accessible to fans and is very gracious about signing autographs. 2003 National Post (Canada) 11 Apr. al3/5 She bid them goodbye, signed an autograph, posed for a picture,..and was gone. b. A person's own handwriting. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > handwriting or style of > [noun] > own handwriting handwriting1421 autography1644 chirography1655 autograph1817 holography1827 autogram1862 1817 Philos. Mag. 50 465 Proclamations, in the autograph of the minister, may be taken off and dispatched before the plate even could be engraved. 1857 J. G. Nichols Lit. Remains King Edward VI. I. p. cxc That line only, and the signature, being in her autograph. 1914 Eng. Hist. Rev. 29 119 The earliest Roman form of the Beweisurkunde was..written in the autograph of one of the contracting parties. 1987 M. Spevack in J. W. Mahon & T. J. Pendleton Fanned & Winnowed Opinions xii. 213 A prompt copy or a producer's copy—in Shakespeare's autograph or in a scribal hand, as the case may be. 2001 C. E. Jackson & P. Davis Sir W. Jardine 198 Many of the drawings are annotated in his autograph. 3. More fully autograph plate. A facsimile of a drawing, writing, etc., produced by autography (autography n. 4). Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > written text > [noun] > transcript or copy transcriptc1290 copyc1330 exemplara1382 again-writingc1384 transumption1412 tenorc1450 examplea1475 transumpt1480 duplicate1532 exemplary1534 double1543 duplicament1574 manuscript1600 apograph1601 exscript1609 exscription1637 transcription1649 autograph1868 1868 People's Mag. Jan. 62 (title) Vegetable Autographs. 1897 Nature 21 Jan. 279/1 Twenty-six species in this tribe are described, and these are figured on sixteen autograph plates. 1915 Bibliotheca Sacra 72 525 This splendid volume contains sixty-four autograph plates of Babylonian tablets. B. adj. (chiefly attributive). Of, relating to, or of the nature of an autograph; written in the author's or composer's own handwriting. Also: (of a painting, drawing, etc.) made by the artist himself or herself; authentic. Cf. holograph adj. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > written text > [adjective] > in own hand all-writteneOE autographical1616 holographical1656 autographal1715 holographic1728 autograph1735 holograph1753 autographic1809 society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > [adjective] > not copy or imitation autograph1958 1735 Present State Republick Lett. 15 xliv. 465 He had before him the Autograph Copy of Mr. Dugdale's Baronage of England, corrected and enlarged by that Writer's own judicious Hand. 1791 J. Bree Cursory Sketch 22 A collection of original admiralty office papers, some of them having autograph signatures of the principal officers there. 1832 S. T. Coleridge Table-talk 164 Autograph copies of some of the apostles' writings. 1890 Science 21 Feb. 131/2 Among Ericsson's papers were found, after his death, a series of autograph pencil-drawings. 1931 Times 17 Nov. 19/5 Two autograph sonnets written in 1887 by Gerard Manley Hopkins, with prosodical markings by the author. 1958 Times Lit. Suppl. 5 Sept. 490/1 Some of the Madonnas..must be wholly or in large part autograph. 2007 H. Krebs & S. Krebs J. Lang v. 160 In the latest extant autograph version of the song, Lang retained this introductory idea. Compounds C1. General attributive and objective, as autograph collector, autograph collection, etc. ΚΠ 1822 B. Disraeli Let. 13 Dec. (1982) I. 5 The firm little dreaming of Autographs and Autograph-collectors, had a general burning. 1889 Critic (N.Y.) 16 Feb. 80/2 In Mr. Guild's autograph collection proper are many notable curiosities, among them a letter from Napoleon to Murat. 1941 R. Riskin Meet John Doe in Six Screenplays (1997) 653 You go out the side entrance. There's a bunch of autograph seekers out front. 1993 Boys' Life July 79/2 As an autograph collector, I have learned how to find addresses of famous people. 2000 Daily Tel. 29 Feb. 25/3 ‘I don't appear to be in your book,’ shouted Baylis, interrupting an autograph session. C2. autograph album n. = autograph book n. ΘΚΠ society > communication > book > kind of book > [noun] > blank book to contain collections album1612 autograph album1829 autograph book1830 1829 Morning Chron. 12 Mar. 1/4 Curious Autograph Albums, with Drawings, &c. 1879 B. F. Taylor Summer-savory xxvi. 209 The writer hopes the reader's name is not found in many autograph albums. 1937 H. Jennings et al. May 12th Mass-observ. Day-surv. ii. 399 Roy Fox..was nonchalantly and unsmilingly signing autograph albums. 1959 I. Opie & P. Opie Lore & Lang. Schoolchildren vii. 117 American children's film-star rhymes..seem to be slicker, more of the autograph-album variety. 2004 J. E. Smith Visions of Belonging 44 The friends who signed her autograph album suggest the mixture of ethnicities in her Brooklyn neighborhood. autograph book n. (a) a book in which a person collects miscellaneous verse, drawings, etc. (b) a book in which a person collects signatures of esp. famous people (now the usual sense). ΘΚΠ society > communication > book > kind of book > [noun] > blank book to contain collections album1612 autograph album1829 autograph book1830 1830 C. Lamb Album Verses 2 (title of poem) In the autograph book of Mrs. Sergeant W—. 1861 G. A. Sala Twice round Clock 117 The register becomes an autograph-book of..illustrious signatures. 1936 A. Christie Cards on Table ii. 16 You should have all ready your autograph book and your fountain pen. 1951 L. P. Hartley My Fellow Devils xxi. 224 A little girl..came up to him shyly with an autograph book. 2006 T. Spanbauer Now is Hour (2007) 79 Sis wouldn't let me autograph her autograph book. autograph hunter n. a person who collects the signatures of famous people. ΚΠ 1829 Eclectic Rev. Nov. 414 Let every literary man henceforth take care how he leaves behind him any letters that may hereafter fall into the hands of some graceless descendant or mercenary autograph-hunter. 1939 K. Tynan Lett. (1994) i. 4 I am only twelve, and a very keen autograph hunter. 2004 Q Sept. 10/1 The uninhibited autograph hunters waiting outside the band's idling tourbus. autograph letter n. a letter in its author's own hand; esp. one written and signed by a well-known figure, treated as a collector's item; cf. sense B. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > written text > [noun] > in person's own hand chirograph1483 autograph1605 holograph1623 idiograph1623 autograph letter1769 AL1868 1769 Lloyd's Evening Post 24–6 July 88/1 Several of the facts are taken from her autograph Letters. 1879 Pop. Sci. Monthly Apr. 821/2 Before going to south Morocco, it was needful to their safety and success that the travelers should have an autograph letter from the Sultan. 1909 P. S. Allen Let. 22 July (1939) 85 Numberless packets of ‘autograph letters’ contained nothing that was wanted, and hardly anything at all old. 2007 V. Ilardi Renaissance Vision from Spectacles to Telescopes vi. 212 This autograph letter is puzzling in tone and content. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online June 2022). autographv. 1. transitive. To write or copy out (a manuscript) by hand. Also: to copy or reproduce by autography (autography n. 4). Chiefly in passive. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > manner of writing > copying or transcribing > copy or transcribe [verb (transitive)] descrivea1382 copy1387 descrya1400 take1418 describea1513 exemplify1542 transcribe1552 escribe1558 copy1563 transcript1593 exscribe1608 transcrive1665 scriven1742 autograph1829 1829 Foreign Q. Rev. 4 344 In the press,..one of the books of Zoroaster, autographed from a Zendic manuscript in the Royal Library at Paris. 1882 Athenæum 18 Mar. 341/2 Both [books] were autographed and intended for practical purposes only. 1899 Independent (N.Y.) 27 July 2026/2 We are glad to call attention to the quarto volume of Astrological-Astronomical Texts, autographed from the cuneiform tablets in the British Museum. 1912 Ann. Rep. Amer. Hist. Assoc. 1911 I. 678 Autographed from type-written copy, with exception of ms. leaf at end. 2. transitive. Esp. of an author or celebrity: to write an autograph on or in (a book, photograph, etc.); to sign. ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > that which identifies or distinguishes > personal identification > signature > sign (a document) [verb (transitive)] sign1442 assign1563 underwrite1569 subsign1572 undersign1580 paragraph1601 style1619 side-sign1708 signature1766 re-sign1805 autographize1822 autograph1833 society > communication > writing > handwriting or style of > write in specific style [verb (transitive)] > write with own hand manuscribe1649 script1834 handwrite1871 autograph1883 1833 tr. C. Nodier in Paris: Bk. One-hundred-and-one 164 These old and perfect copies autographed by celebrated savans..belong to Sir Richard. 1837 Blackwood's Mag. 41 281 Don Carlos might long ere now have autographed his decrees, Yo el Rey, from..the Escurial. 1883 Graphic 3 Nov. 452 He autographs the Admiral's book. 1917 S. Leacock Frenzied Fiction viii. 135 The Prince took the pen and very kindly autographed for us seven photographs of himself. 1949 E. Birney Turvey iv. 29 The up-patients had gone about autographing all the casts with indelible pencils. 2006 G. Newsham Once in Lifetime 56 The hotel's busboy had sprinted home to get a soccer ball for Pelé to autograph. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.adj.1605v.1829 |
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