1648 N. Bernard Still-borne Nativitie 3 I in this Sermon represent as in a Sciagraph all the Ioynts of the History of Christ.

1656 T. Blount Glossographia Sciagraph (sciagrapha) a description of the whole frame and contrivance of every room. [Also in later dictionaries.]

1657 J. Beale Herefordshire Orchards 17 I did..set kernels of the finest sort of apples, with delineating in a sciograph the several kinds in severall places.

1854 O. Jones Greek Court Crystal Palace 17 In the earliest vase paintings..everything is profile, and painted an equal tint like the silhouette, which the Greeks called skiagraphs or shadow-paintings.

1859 C. Wordsworth Greece (new ed.) 31 The ombre chinois..is an interesting sciagraph, representing a boar hunt.

1863 Intellect. Repository Feb. 65 We would fain linger amidst ‘the groves of Academe’, and add to our very imperfect outline or skiagraph of Plato's philosophy a few words.

1974 Chicago Rev. 25 No. 4. 21 An eyeshaped rent in some rich brocaded curtain, that allows the light of the pageant within to seep out,..reproducing, in miniature skiagraph, the action transpiring on a larger scale.

1896 H. W. Cattell in Med. News (N.Y.) 15 Feb. 170/1 It will be convenient​ to coin the words skiagraph or skotograph to characterize pictures produced by the X-rays... The original skiagraphs photographically reproduced in the annexed plate will convince the most doubting.

1896 Daily News 11 Apr. 6/4 On a skiagraph being taken..an obscure..form of partial dislocation was easily discovered.

1905 Mich. Law Rev. 3 667 X-ray photographs, or sciagraphs, or radiographs, as they are variously called, have been held admissible on the same basis as photographs.

1915 E. Hough Getting Wrong Start vi. 226 Dare I give you the skiagraph of a soul!

1920 Appendix Jrnls. House of Commons Canada 57 194 Up to the time we were bombed out..we took over 8600 sciographs.

1940 E. F. Benson Final Edition x. 208 When..one of them suggested that an X-ray skiagraph should be taken, it showed osteo-arthritis in an advanced stage.

1949 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 14 May 854/1 The use of high-grade paper has allowed of almost perfect reproduction of the many photographs and skiagraphs.

1958 Bull. City Art Mus. St. Louis 43 55 (caption) Skiagraph showing porous character of metal.

1988 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 8 Jan. 11/1 Sciagraphs (now known as X-rays) were just coming into regular use.

2005 J. van Dijck Transparent Body v. 94 The x-rayed hand must have reminded contemporary readers of the famous skiagraph of Bertha Röntgen's fingers.

1896 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 29 Feb. 587 Photograph of a patient being skiographed.

1910 Albany Med. Ann. July 386 The mistake if any was in not skiagraphing the whole urinary system the first time, a practice which is now done.

1930 Tubercle 11 155 All gave a positive von Pirquet's reaction. Thirty-one were skiagraphed.

1993 Amer. Jrnl. Surg. 165 254/1 The bones can be skiagraphed with equal accuracy whether the elbow or ankle be swollen.