▪ I. holograph, a. and n.
(ˈhɒləʊgrɑːf, -græf)
[a. F. holographe (also olographe) or ad. late L. holograph-us, a. Gr. ὁλόγραϕ-ος, f. ὅλο-ς whole + -γραϕος written.]
A. adj. Of a deed, letter, or document: Wholly written by the person in whose name it appears.
| 1753 Stewart's Trial 24 Principal holograph letter, by Allan Stewart..addressed to Duncan Stewart of Glenbucky. 1754 Erskine Princ. Sc. Law (1809) 298 Holograph deeds (written by the granter himself) are effectual without witnesses. 1897 15th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. App. viii. 155 These letters are all holograph of the Duke. 1898 Daily News 26 Jan. 7/6 According to the law of Belgium, a man might make his testament in two or three different ways, and one of those was by a holograph will. |
B. n.
1. A letter or other document written wholly by the person in whose name it appears.
| 1623 Cockeram, Holograph, a Testament all written by the Testators hands. a 1834 Lamb Let. to Manning (L.), I have got your holograph. 1848 Wharton Law Lex., Holograph, a deed written entirely by the grantor himself, which..is held by the Scotch law valid without witnesses. 1856 Mrs. Browning Aur. Leigh i. Poems 1890 VI. 32 A palimpsest, a prophet's holograph Defiled, erased and covered by a monk's. |
2. in holograph: wholly in the author's handwriting.
| c 1817 Hogg Tales & Sk. II. 255 Two short codicils in his own holograph. 1873 Browning Red. Cott. Nt.-cap iv. 650 Bequeathed..by testament In holograph. |
▪ II. holograph, v.
(ˈhɒləʊgrɑːf, -græf)
[Back-formation from holography, after photograph, telegraph vbs.]
trans. To record as a hologram, to make a holographic record of.
| 1968 Ultrasonics VI. 87/1 Although Greguss has demonstrated that ultrasound holograms can be visualized by this technique, he has not published results of any attempts to reconstruct images of the original objects holographed. 1970 Sci. Jrnl. Aug. 17/1 The light from a pulsed laser is split into two beams, one going direct to the metal film and the other going first to the object to be holographed and then to the metal film. 1970 Physics Bull. Nov. 493/2 In any sort of holography..the aim is to obtain an image of the object being ‘holographed’. |