pornographn.adj.

1824 Classical Jrnl. Mar. 122 From employing their pencils on scenes of this kind, some ancient artists celebrated by Athenaeus acquired the title of Pornographs, or painters of courtesans.

1840 Penny Cycl. XVII. 287/1 These productions entitle Parrhasius to the epithet of Pornograph, and prove that this style of painting was in fashion long before the decline of Grecian art.

1877 Contemp. Rev. Mar. 562 He would recognize..the difference between Pheidias and the pornographs.

1890 J. W. Mollett Painters of Barbizon 14 He [sc. Watteau] was not the pornograph that Boucher was, but his was a petty theatrical world which pained me.

1905 Classical Rev. 19 394/2 One would gather that Theognis..was a sink of iniquity, and one critic..has the inconceivable blindness to compare him to the pornograph Straton.

1890 Cent. Dict. Pornograph, an obscene picture or writing.

1955 M. Allingham Beckoning Lady vii. 109 Through the window, a line of bladders, now a trifle flabby, were..visible. ‘Listen.’ Tonker seized the mouthgrip... Mr. Campion pulled himself together. ‘It's horrible,’ he said. ‘A pornograph, Tonker.’

1967 Spectator 1 Dec. 683/1 A pornograph can be either verbal or visual, but the visual stimulus is generally more intense than the verbal one.

2000 Fireweed (Nexis) 31 Dec. 38 My photography was from the start a medium of desire, an object of sexual fulfilment, a pornograph.

1893 E. Saltus Madam Sapphira 165 Here the reporter can be as pornograph as the Marquess of Sade, if he knows how.

1986 National Law Jrnl. (Nexis) 1 Sept. 4 Banzhaf has stated that non-obscene pornograph materials are protected by the First Amendment.

2000 Econ. Times (India) (Nexis) 15 May Cyber cafes should not be allowed to degenerate into pornograph clubs.