logography

[ loh-gog-ruh-fee ]

noun

1. printing with logotypes.
2. a method of longhand reporting, each of several reporters in succession taking down a few words.

logography

/ lɒˈɡɒɡrəfɪ /

noun

1. (formerly) a method of longhand reporting

Derived Forms

• loˈgographer, noun

Other Words From

• lo·gogra·pher noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of logography¹

First recorded in 1775–85, logography is from the Greek word logographía speech writing. See logo-, -graphy

Example Sentences

But in 1753 he was eagerly engaged in having several of his improvements incorporated in a new press, and more than twenty years after was actively interested in John Walter’s scheme of “logography.”

From Project Gutenberg

All the beauty, dignity, and glory of English logography seem to be his: he marshals an array of adjectives and phrases which seem all of the blood royal of our munificent mother tongue.

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He found numerous and worthy successors in oratorical and scientific authorship; and though his original historical treatise, which of its kind may be compared with the Greek logography, was not followed by any Herodotus or Thucydides, yet by and through him the principle was established that literary occupation in connection with the useful sciences as well as with history was not merely becoming but honourable in a Roman.

From Project Gutenberg

He found numerous and worthy successors in oratorical and scientific authorship; and though his original historical treatise, which of its kind may be compared with the Greek logography, was not followed by any Herodotus or Thucydides, yet by and through him the principle was established that literary occupation in connection with the useful sciences as well as with history was not merely becoming but honourable in a Roman.

From Project Gutenberg

Something akin to stereotyping is another method of printing, called logography, invented by John Walter of the London Times, in 1783, and for which he took out a patent.

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