a. [Formed as prec. + -GRAPHIC.]
1. Relating to stylography or writing with a style (see quots.). ? Obs.
1808. R. Wedgwood, Patent Specif., No. 3110. An apparatus for producing several original writings or drawings at one and the same time which I call a Pennæpolygraph or pen and stylographic manifold writer.
1846. Worcester, Stylographic, Stylographical, relating to stylography. Crosman.
1847–54. Webster, Stylographic, pertaining to or used in stylography; as, stylographic cards, cards which may be written upon with a style. Stylographic pencil, a pencil or style for this kind of writing.
2. Stylographic pen: a variety of fountain-pen, having no nib, but a fine perforated writing-point fed with ink from the reservoir in the stem; in this point is fitted a fine needle, which when pushed back in the act of writing opens a valve so as to permit the flow of the ink.
1880. Harper’s Monthly Mag., LX. 624. A ream of paper, and a stylographic pen.
1892. G. & W. Grossmith, Diary of a Nobody, xviii. A new patent stylographic pen, which cost me nine-and-sixpence.
Hence Stylographical a. (Worcester, 1840), Stylographically adv. (Webster, 1864).
