logography
(ləˈgɒgrəfɪ)
[ad. Gr. λογογραϕία, f. λόγο-ς speech + -γραϕία writing. Cf. F. logographie.]
1. (See quot. 1783.)
| 1783 H. Johnson (title) An Introduction to Logography: or, the art of arranging and composing for printing with words intire, their radices and terminations, instead of single letters. 1796 Mod. Gulliver's Trav. 198, I then wrote a treatise on the beauties of Liliputian ortho and logography. 1841 Penny Cycl. XIX. 16/1 Logography..is merely a modification of block-printing. 1887 Fox Bourne Eng. Newspapers I. 255 A new [c 1783] printing process known as logography. |
2. A method of long-hand reporting, in which several reporters were employed, each taking down a few words in succession.
| 1842 Brande Dict. Sci. etc., Logography, a system of taking down the words of an orator without having recourse to short-hand, which was put in practice during the French revolution. |