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Definition of tachygraphy in English: tachygraphynoun taˈkɪɡrəfi mass nounStenography or shorthand, especially that of ancient or medieval scribes. Example sentencesExamples - Notably Mentz argues that the inscription is not an example of tachygraphy but rather an early attempt, during the tumultuous times surrounding the Pelepponesian War, to reform the Greek language.
- Primarily let us ask, if a contemporary of Xenophon knew anything about tachygraphy, how is it that no one alluded to this art?
- The exact minutes of some of the Councils - e.g. Chalcedon - seem to be due to very successful tachygraphy.
Derivatives noun adjective takɪˈɡrafɪk Cicero's freed slave, Tiro, is generally described as authoring the first truly tachygraphic system, one that more or less enabled verbatim reporting of human speech, by codifying a set of forms - symbols that by their shape and position represented common words. Example sentencesExamples - Whether the tachygraphic writing on our tablets represents Tironian notes as known from the Carolingian period (Mentz's System A), or whether, as we think less likely, it represents either of those known from Ravenna, or whether it represents something different from any of the known systems, we do not feel competent to judge.
- All of these features point to early in the Type II typological sequence, though this is not necessarily indicative of an early absolute date.… It is the furthest away from the casual, tachygraphic inscriptions of Gurness of Burrian.
- They generally fall into three categories: suspensions, in which the end of the word is abbreviated, signaled by the use of a horizontal bar or another graphic symbol; contractions in which another part of the word is abbreviated with the use of a graphic symbol; abbreviation symbols, used for whole words and often derived from tachygraphic systems of antiquity.
- In the dedicatory letter to Secondino of Taormina, the pontiff speaks of the existence of another unauthorised copy circulated by fratres ferventes who obtained and divulged a text drawn on tachygraphic transcriptions preserved in the Lateran archive.
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Definition of tachygraphy in US English: tachygraphynoun Stenography or shorthand, especially that of ancient or medieval scribes. Example sentencesExamples - The exact minutes of some of the Councils - e.g. Chalcedon - seem to be due to very successful tachygraphy.
- Notably Mentz argues that the inscription is not an example of tachygraphy but rather an early attempt, during the tumultuous times surrounding the Pelepponesian War, to reform the Greek language.
- Primarily let us ask, if a contemporary of Xenophon knew anything about tachygraphy, how is it that no one alluded to this art?
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