[f. Gr. λόγο-ς word + -GRAM.
In sense 1 substituted (owing to association with anagram, lipogram, etc.) for logograph, which in this sense is itself a mistake for Logogriph.]
1. = LOGOGRIPH.
1820. Heber, Lett., 1 April, in Life (1830), II. 19. If you are not much in the habit of composing logograms, you can hardly conceive how many words a single well-chosen noun may be coaxed into. For instance, how many are there in steam-boat?
1862. H. B. Wheatley (title), Of Anagrams,… Lipograms, Chronograms, Logograms, Palindromes.
2. A sign or character representing a word; in Phonography, a word-letter; a single stroke which, for brevity’s sake, represents a word.
1840. I. Pitman, Man. Phonography, § 159 (1845), 46. The hooked vr is used as a logogram for very. Ibid. (1870), Phonet. Man., 126. The following ingenious exercise is composed entirely of Logograms.
Hence Logogrammatic a., pertaining to logograms (sense 1).
1820. Heber, Lett., 1 April, in Life (1830), II. 19. The whimsical contrast which this logogrammatic Berserksgangr presented to the parallel exploit of Coleridge, who wrote his Kubla-Khan under the effects of opium.
