glossography
(glɒˈsɒgrəfɪ)
[ad. F. glossographie, f. glosso- glosso- + -γραϕία writing.]
1. The writing of glosses or commentaries; the compiling of glossaries.
| 1623 Cockeram, Glossographie, an expounding of strange words. 1721–1800 Bailey, Glossography, the art of writing a glossary. 1827 Pollok Course T. viii. (1860) 216 Glossography itself..scarce more Of folly raved. |
2. A description of the tongue.
| 1842 in Dunglison Med. Dict.: and in some later Dicts. |
3. A description or grouping of languages.
| 1889 in Century Dict. |
Hence ˌglossoˈgraphical a., pertaining to, or of the nature of, glossography.
| 1727 in Bailey vol. II. 1846 in Worcester. |