shorthandn.adj.

1636 Jeffrey Hudson's New Yeeres Gift (title page) With a Letter as it was penned in short-hand.

1639 J. Mayne Citye Match i. iii Shall I not learn Arithmetic too, sir, and Short~hand.

1720 W. R. Chetwood Voy. Capt. R. Falconer ii. 59 His Journals were mostly taken in Short-Hand.

1864 Soc. Sci. Rev. 220 A species of shorthand was practised in the time of Cicero.

1909 Athenæum 13 Mar. 1/3 The training includes Indexing, Shorthand, Type-writing, Stenotypy.

1695 J. Collier Misc. upon Moral Subj. 119 'Tis the Short-hand of the Mind, and crowds a great deal into a little room.

1786 T. Busby Compl. Dict. Music p. xxxii These abbreviations form a musical Brachygraphy, or Short Hand.

1827 J. C. Hare & A. W. Hare Guesses at Truth I. 8 To address the prejudices of our hearers, is to argue with them in short-hand.

1894 H. Drummond Lowell Lect. Ascent of Man 232 To save time the objects were drawn in shorthand—a couple of dashes for the limbs and one across, as in the Chinese for man.

1897 R. Kipling Captains Courageous v. 124 The We're Here rang her bell thrice, using sea shorthand.

1931 E. A. Robertson Four Frightened People ii. 57 Arnold Ainger spoke exactly the same language as we did... It is possible to talk from the first in mental shorthand with such an acquaintance.

1960 N. Mitford Don't tell Alfred xiv. 158 Americans..need the dissertation; the kind of shorthand that we talk would be useless to them.

1970 Guardian 10 July 10/6 ‘Oxfash’ is undergraduate shorthand for the establishment of councillors, planners, shopkeepers, and dons.

1822 W. Irving Bracebridge Hall II. 35 Every new short-hand mode of doing things.

1844 T. De Quincey Logic Polit. Econ. Pref. 8 A short-hand expression for the relation between the quantity offered for sale, and the quantity demanded.

1887 G. Saintsbury Hist. Elizabethan Lit. vii. 275 The recourse to dumb show..looks like a kind of shorthand indication of scenes that might have been worked out.

1863 York Herald 14 Nov. 6/1 Wanted shortly,..a Situation as ‘book-keeper correspondent’, or shorthand clerk.

1889 Shorthand 3 195 The work of a Shorthand clerk is not simply mechanical, as some people suppose.

1822 J. M. Good Study Med. I. 375 Copying my short-hand minutes of medical lectures.

1709 Female Tatler No. 4/2 I took Short-hand-Notes.

1903 G. B. Shaw Man & Superman i. 2 He has no secretary with a shorthand notebook.

1977 A. Morice Scared to Death xxiii. 154 A single page of lined paper, perforated at the top and obviously torn from a shorthand notebook.

1960 C. Morris Unloved 463 Janet is making notes on a shorthand pad.

1977 M. Babson Lord Mayor of Death iv. 36 The recording officer began noting the words in his shorthand pad.

1831 D. E. Williams Life Sir T. Lawrence I. 401 The following is the short-hand report of his evidence.

1881 ‘M. Twain’ Lett. to Publishers (1967) 147 A short-hand reporter to travel with us in the spring.

1887 Ld. Rosebery in Standard 27 Sept. 2/4 The first authorised shorthand reporter in a Court of Law.

1701 Laconics (new ed.) iii. 97 'Tis wisely done..of a short hand Teacher [to live next door] to a Meeting-house.

a1734 R. North Examen (1740) iii. viii. §76 642 The Party Men attended with their Short-hand Writers at their Elbows, to take what might incautelously..slip from the Mouths of the Judges, for Matter of Accusation.

1904 H. Spencer Autobiogr. II. 292 The amanuensis was a short~hand-writer.

1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. vii. [Aeolus] 136 There was not even one shorthandwriter in the hall.

1964 T. L. Kinsey Audio-typing & Electr. Typewriters ii. 7 Any audio-typist can transcribe audio-dictation—the dictation is never lost, as can be the case with written notes recorded in an absent shorthand-writer's notebook.

1641 J. Wilkins Mercury xii. 98 This short-hand writing is now so ordinary in practice [etc.].

1747 S. Richardson Clarissa I. xii. 69 He is a complete master of short-hand writing.

1663 J. Birkenhead Assembly-man 17 I admire the Short-hand-men, who have the patience to write from his Mouth.

a1679 W. Outram 20 Serm. (1682) sig. A2^v They were taken from the author by a Short-hand-man.

1901 Phonetic Jrnl. 24 Aug. 541 To a large extent the occupation of the shorthand-typist has hitherto been synonymous with the lady typist.

1921 Dict. Occup. Terms (1927) § 939 Shorthand typist; wholly engaged in taking down letters, statements, memoranda, etc., in shorthand from dictation of another, and in transcribing them on typewriter.

1926 I. Pitman Dictation Pract. in Business Corr. Pref. p. i In addition to business correspondence, the shorthand-typist is frequently called upon to complete forms.

1973 J. R. L. Anderson Death on Rocks i. 21 She had worked as a shorthand typist.

1928 John Blunt 11 Aug. 1/3 (heading) Shorthand it!

1936 Punch 15 Jan. 60/1 All I wanted..was a secretary—just an ordinary girl who could shorthand and typewrite and answer a telephone and so on.

1975 Times Lit. Suppl. 28 Feb. 210/4 The urbanized cluster of inlets and coastal fringe the Venetians shorthanded as La Dominante.

1975 I. K. Martin Regan & Manhattan File 37 One of Broughton's silent colleagues had a notebook out, shorthanding Regan's words.

1977 Monitor (McAllen, Texas) 17 July 5F/6 ‘Shorthand’ has also become quite popular in what is jocularly referred to in Hollywood as the ‘creative community’. Ask a producer what his show is all about and he'll never say, ‘I don't know.’ He says instead, ‘There's no way to shorthand that.’

a1658 J. Cleveland Char. Country-comm.-man (1677) 99 A new blew stockin'd Justice..with a short-handed Clerk, tack'd to the Rear of him to carry the Knapsack of his Understanding.

1738 R. Thyer Let. 11 Mar. in Private Jrnl. & Lit. Remains (1856) II. i. 198 We arrive at Hartley's, where we accidentally find a party of shorthanders.

1898 L. Stephen Stud. of Biographer I. iii. 86 The meetings of the shorthanders naturally took place at taverns.