[f. Gr. σύμβολον SYMBOL sb.1 + -γραφία -GRAPHY.]

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  1.  Description of symbols. rare–0.

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1656.  Blount, Glossogr., Symbolography … a description of Symboles, a writing or expression of things by signs and tokens.

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  2.  The writing or tracing of symbolic characters or figures, or such characters or figures collectively; symbolic writing.

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1865.  Athenæum, 14 Oct., 495/1. The cross, the comb and mirror, the interlaced serpents, the chase, and other indicia of Christian symbolography.

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1887.  Sir S. Ferguson, Ogham Inscript., 150. The type must be looked for in Byzantine symbolography.

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