a. [f. STENOGRAPHY: see -GRAPHIC. Cf. F. sténographique.] Of, pertaining to, or expressed in stenography.
1681. Colvil, Whigs Supplic. (1710), 14. Greek, Syriack, or Arabick, Or Breviations Stenographick.
1775. Ash.
1837. Pitman (title), Stenographic Sound-hand.
1888. Stevenson, Some Gentlemen in Fiction, in Scribner’s Mag., June, 764/1. [My characters] turned their backs on me and walked off bodily; and from that time, my task was stenographic—it was they who spoke.
1907. G. Salmon, Human Element in Gosp., 111. It is not imagined that the historian made use of stenographic reports.
Hence Stenographical a. (in the same sense). Stenographically adv., by means of shorthand.
1656. S. Holland, Zara, II. v. 112. Reading his unalterable resolvs written (Stenographically) in his face.
1674. Jeake, Arith. (1696), 271. But as the Denominations are various, and therefore must be exprest; so the Stenographical Mantles in which they are wrapt up, are … arbitrary.
1727. Bailey, vol. II., Stenographical, pertaining to secret writing.
1824. T. Molineux (title), The Stenographical Copy-Book.
1906. Daily Chron., 22 March, 6/7. The staff that stenographically chronicles the House’s doings from day to day.
