a. [f. LOGOGRAPHY + -IC. Cf. Gr. λογογραφικός.]
1. Pertaining to logography (see LOGOGRAPHY 1).
1784. Lond. Chron., No. 4287. Logographic Office, Black Friars, April 15. By His Majesty’s Royal Letters Patent for printing by words intire instead of single Letters.
1785. (title) Miscellanies in Prose and Verse intended as a Specimen of the Types, at the Logographic Printing Office.
1882. Pebody, Eng. Journalism, xiii. 94. John Walter … set all the printers in London by the ears with his whim about logographic printing.
2. Consisting of characters or signs, each of which singly represents a complete word.
1801. J. Hager, Babylon. Inscript., 53. Goguet makes no distinction between hieroglyphic, and, as I call them, monogrammatic or logographic characters.
1828. Du Ponceau, Chinese Syst. Writing (1838), 110. I would not call the Chinese characters a syllabic, but a logographic system of writing.
So Logographical a.
1828–32. in Webster.
