logograph
(ˈlɒgəgrɑːf, -æ-)
[f. as prec. + -graph. Cf. Gr. λογογράϕος (see next).]
¶ 1. Used erroneously for logogriph.
Some mod. edd. of Jonson Underwoods lxi. have logographes where the original ed. has logogriphes.
| 1797 Monthly Mag. III. 468 The Masquerade; or, a Collection of New Epigrams, Logographs [etc.]. |
2. Phonography. A character or combination of characters representing a word; = logogram 2.
| 1888 I. Pitman Man. Phonography §190. 68. |
3. = logotype 1.
| 1872 W. Skeen Early Typography 426 It is an existing book, nearly two hundred years old, one half of which is printed with movable wooden letters, logographs, and words. |
4. = logographer 2. rare (in quot. transf.).
| 1862 Latham Channel Isl. iii. xviii. (ed. 2) 417 The philosophy..or mythology of the Welsh bards and logographs. |
5. An instrument for giving a graphic representation of speech-sounds.
| 1879 G. B. Prescott Sp. Telephone 295 For recording vocal impulses one of the most sensitive instruments is the logograph, invented by W. H. Barlow, F.R.S. |
Hence ˈlogograph v. trans., to print with logotypes.
| 1843 Biographical Dict. II. ii. 576 A second edition appeared in 1764 and a third in 1797–9 (which being logographed, or printed with a separately cast type for every word, was reissued in 1801). |