[f. as prec. + -GRAPH. Cf. Gr. λογογράφος (see next).]

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  ¶ 1.  Used erroneously for LOGOGRIPH.

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  Some mod. edd. of Jonson, Underwoods, lxi. have logographes where the original ed. has logogriphes.

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1797.  Monthly Mag., III. 468. The Masquerade; or, a Collection of New Epigrams, Logographs [etc.].

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  2.  Phonography. A character or combination of characters representing a word; = LOGOGRAM 2.

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1888.  I. Pitman, Man. Phonography, § 190. 68.

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  3.  = LOGOTYPE.

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1872.  W. Skeen, Early Typography, 426. It is an existing book, nearly two hundred years old, one half of which is printed with movable wooden letters, logographs, and words.

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  4.  = LOGOGRAPHER 2. rare (in quot. transf.).

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1862.  Latham, Channel Isl. III. xviii. (ed. 2), 417. The philosophy … or mythology of the Welsh bards and logographs.

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  5.  An instrument for giving a graphic representation of speech-sounds.

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1879.  G. Prescott, Sp. Telephone, 295. For recording vocal impulses one of the most sensitive instruments is the logograph, invented by W. H. Barlow, F.R.S.

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  Hence Logograph v. trans., to print with logotypes.

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1843.  Biographical Dict., II. II. 576. A second edition appeared in 1764 and a third in 1797–9 (which being logographed, or printed with a separately cast type for every word, was reissued in 1801).

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