[f. prec. + Gr. -γραφος writing, a writer.
Erroneously formed: the combining forms of Gr. κῦμα being κυματο-, κυμο-, cymato-, cymo-.]
An instrument for copying or tracing the contour of profiles and moldings.
1837. Athenæum, 11 March, 179. A paper … from the Rev. R. Willis descriptive of a new instrument invented by him for tracing profiles and mouldings, and which he called the Symagraph.
1842. R. Willis, in Civ. Eng. & Arch. Jrnl., V. 219 (title), Description of the Cymagraph for copying mouldings.
1889. Athenæum, 19 Jan., 90/1. The mouldings have been taken full size with the cymagraph, and reduced to scale on the drawings.
Hence Cyma-, prop. Cymograph v. nonce-wd.
1844. G. Peacock, Address Brit. Assoc., p. xliv. Carefully reduced and tabulated, and their mean results cymographed or projected in curves.
