[a. F. tachygraphe, ad. Gr. ταχυγράφος a swift writer, a scribe, f. ταχύ-ς swift + -γράφος writing, writer.]
1. One who practises tachygraphy; a writer of shorthand, a stenographer; spec. one of the shorthand writers of the ancient Greeks and Romans.
1810. Hist. Europe, in Ann. Reg., 114/2. If all the speeches … were faithfully represented by the bench of tachygraphes.
1865. M. Pattison, Ess. (1889), I. 87. Of Greek scribes there were two kinds, the tachygraph (ταχυγράφος), and the calligraph (καλλιγράφος).
1895. Farrar, Gather. Clouds, II. 142. The other tachygraph, Phocas, had also reported this sermon.
2. A tachygraphic writing. (In mod. Dicts.)
Hence Tachygrapher, Tachygraphist, shorthand writer, a stenographer; = sense 1.
1887. Cassell’s Encycl. Dict., Tachygrapher.
1891. in Cent. Dict.
1895. Farrar, Gather. Clouds, II. 151. That you … may injure my reputation as a tachygraphist.
