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1602 J. Willis (title) The art of stenographie, teaching..the way of compendious writing.

1632 R. Brome Northern Lasse iii. ii Sure tis Stenography, every Character a word: and here and there one for a whole sentence.

1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1778 II. 214 Although I did not write what is called stenography, or short-hand, in appropriated characters devised for the purpose, I had a method of my own of writing half words, [etc.].

1838 J. Grant Sketches London 264 A gentleman who was exceedingly fond of stenography previous to the derangement of his intellects,..incessantly wrote short~hand to his own dictation, after he was placed in an asylum.

1908 Q. Rev. Oct. 528 Stenography has caused reporting to be more professional than in those days.

1647 J. Cleveland Poems in Char. London-diurnall (Wing C4662) 33 Oh the accurst Stenographie of fate! The Princely Eagle shrunke into a Bat.

1664 H. Power Exper. Philos. Pref. sig. B2^v In these prety Engines (by an Incomparable Stenography of Providence) are lodged all the perfections of the largest Animals.

1836 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers (1837) vii. 68 Mr. Pickwick was sufficiently versed in the stranger's system of stenography to infer from this rapid and disjointed communication that [etc.].

1902 A. Symons in Academy 23 Aug. 200/1 A fine play is not the copy of an incident, or the stenography of a character.

1911 Q. Rev. July 229 The speech of the stage had become a mere stenography.

1652 E. Benlowes Theophila sig. B3 Be Wit Stenography'd, yet free; 'Tis largest in Epitome.