[Back-formation from STENOGRAPHER; perh. after F. sténographier.] trans. To write in shorthand, to represent by stenography; also absol. Hence Stenographed ppl. a.
1821. Lives Scott. Poets, I. 62. How puerile, indeed, if judged of, by the contracted, stenographed, blurred, interlined, under-scored, through-scored, higgledy-piggledy state in which their manuscripts have been consigned to the vigilant care of those real guardians of the press—ycleped ‘Printers’ readers!’
1865. Morn. Star, 18 Jan. It is equally possible to stenograph by the pantelegraphic machine with marvellous rapidity.
1872. Daily News, 31 July, 5/5. The conversation of M. St. Hilaire might be stenographed straight off.
1903. R. D. Shaw, Pauline Epist., IV. ii. 439. If Paul dictated the letters, then, to use Renan’s phrase, we have a kind of ‘stenographed conversation.’
