[ad. Gr. λογογραφία, f. λόγο-ς speech + -γραφία writing. Cf. F. logographie.]
1. (See quot. 1783.)
1783. H. Johnson (title), An Introduction to Logography: or, the art of arranging and composing for printing with words intire, their radices and terminations, instead of single letters.
1796. Mod. Gulliver’s Trav., 198. I then wrote a treatise on the beauties of Liliputian ortho and logography.
1841. Penny Cycl., XIX. 16/1. Logography is merely a modification of block-printing.
1887. Fox Bourne, Eng. Newspapers, I. 255. A new [c. 1783] printing process known as logography.
2. A method of long-hand reporting, in which several reporters were employed, each taking down a few words in succession.
1842. Brande, Dict. Sci., etc., Logography, a system of taking down the words of an orator without having recourse to short-hand, which was put in practice during the French revolution.
