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单词 typography
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typographyn.

Brit. /tʌɪˈpɒɡrəfi/, /tᵻˈpɒɡrəfi/, U.S. /taɪˈpɑɡrəfi/
Forms: Also 1600s tipo-.
Etymology: < French typographie (1577 in Hatzfeld & Darmesteter), < modern Latin typographia (B. Veronensis, 1493), < Greek τύπος type + -γραϕία writing: see typo- comb. form and -graphy comb. form. So Portuguese typographia, Spanish tipografia, Italian tipografia.
1.
a. The art or practice of printing.
ΘΚΠ
society > communication > printing > [noun]
print1499
impression1509
printing1509
impressing1530
press1579
imprimatur1640
typography1646
imprimery1681
presswork1728
imprimature1813
imprint1899
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica i. viii. 34 Those diminutive, and pamphlet Treaties.., pieces maintaining rather Typography then verity. View more context for this quotation
c1660 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1641 (1955) II. 54 The happy Monke, whom they report to have been the first inventor of Typography.
1679 C. Ness Distinct Disc. Antichrist 94 Typography or publick printing, a rare engine for communicating the knowledge of the truth.
1759 S. Johnson Idler 11 Aug. 249 Caxton taught us Typography about the year 1490.
1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus i. vi. 15/2 I consider those printed Paper Aprons, worn by the Parisian Cooks, as a new vent, though a slight one, for Typography.
1875 F. H. A. Scrivener 6 Lect. Text New Test. 3 The first fruit of typography, the beautiful Latin Bible known as Cardinal Mazarin's.
b. A printing establishment, a press. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
society > communication > printing > printing trade > [noun] > printing establishment
printing house1553
house?a1563
press1579
printing shop1589
printing office1600
print house1607
printery1638
typography1660
imprimery1663
chapel1688
print shop1845
1660 in W. Blackstone To Rev. Dr. Randolph (1757) 20 The overplus of the money..to be imployed in setting up and maintaining a learned typographie.
2.
a. The action or process of printing; esp. the setting and arrangement of types and printing from them; typographical execution; hence, the arrangement and appearance of printed matter.
ΘΚΠ
society > communication > printing > printed matter > arrangement or appearance of printed matter > [noun]
print1507
typography1697
1697 G. Keith 2nd Narr. Proc. Turners-Hall 23 A Literal Fault in the Typography, as for read it was printed real.
1793 J. Boswell Life Johnson (ed. 2) I. Advt. p. xiv The typography of both editions does honour to the press.
1817 Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 4 Jan. 8 My name is placed in large characters..here merely in the typography of the thing, is a proof that [etc.].
1853 H. N. Humphreys Coin Coll. Man. (1876) xxvi. 405 Whose book is a fine monument of the typography of the period.
1900 Jrnl. School Geogr. (U.S.) Apr. 160 The typography is clear.
b. transferred. Printed matter; letterpress. rare.
ΘΚΠ
society > communication > printing > printed matter > [noun]
print1507
typography1644
matter1683
presswork1728
printed matter1836
the printed word1846
literature1859
printing ink1904
print-work1919
1644 J. Milton Areopagitica 19 To catalogue all those Printers who are found frequently offending, and forbidd the importation of their whole suspected typography.
3. (See quot. 1755) Obsolete. rare.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.
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1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Typography, 1, emblematical, figurative, or hieroglyphical representation.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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