Typo-

before a vowel typ-, combining form repr. Gr. τύπος TYPE sb.¹, used chiefly in forming scientific and technical terms, and some nonce-words. Typacanthid a. [Gr. ἄκανθα spine], having the typical arrangement of spines, as a star-fish. Typarchical a. nonce-wd. [Gr. ἀρχή rule: cf. ARCHICAL], of or pertaining to the control of the printing-press. Typocrat [after DEMOCRAT], one who rules by means of the press; so Typocratic a. (nonce-wds.). Typo-etching: see quot. Typogravure, a method of printing pictures from half-tone blocks prepared by photo-engraving, and set up for printing with type-matter; also, a picture produced by this process. † Typolite, Geol. (also typolith) [-LITE]: see quot. 1828. Typolithography, a process in which impressions from printers’ type are reproduced by lithography (Webster, 1911); hence † Typolithography v. trans. to reproduce by this process; Typolithographic a. pertaining to or produced by typolithography (Webster, 1911). Typomania (nonce-wd.), (a) a craze for seeing one’s writings or name in print; (b) a craze for typology or symbolism. Typometer, an instrument for measuring type-bodies. Typonym, Nat. Hist. [after eponym, etc.], a name based on a type or specimen; hence Typonymal, Typonymic, adjs. Typophil [-PHIL, -PHILE], one who has a fondness for or interest in typography, Typoradiography, a method of making copies of a writing, etc., on sensitized sheets or films by radiography. Typorama [Gr. ὅραμα view, spectacle], a model or representation in facsimile. Typoscribe, a typist. Typoscript, typewriting, type-script. Typo-telegraph, a telegraph instrument which automatically prints the messages it receives; so Typo-telegraphy. Typotheter [Gr. θετήρ, f. τιθέναι to set, place], a type-setting machine.

1881.  F. J. Bell, in Proc. Zool. Soc., 3 May, 502. When the spines retain the simpler disposition … seen in … most of the better known forms, we may speak of the arrangement as being *typacanthid.

1835.  Southey, Doctor, cii. (1848), 233/2. Old Mr. Strahan the printer (the founder of his *typarchical dynasty).

1858.  P. J. Bailey, The Age, 15.

1854.  E. Michelsen, England, 186. The English Constitution … is *typocratic, and written every day.

1888.  J. Southward, in Encycl. Brit., XXIII. 704/1. In … *typo-etching, the drawing is made with ordinary lithographic ink on stone, or on paper and transferred to stone. It is then re-transferred to a plate of polished zinc by the ordinary lithographic process.

1885.  Academy, 20 June, 445/2. A new process—*‘typogravure.’

1890.  Woodbury, Encycl. Photogr., 535. The Typogravure process is a method of obtaining half-tone pictures from copper relief plates.

1828.  Webster, *Topolite, in natural history, a stone or fossil which has on it impressions or figures of plants and animals. Cyc.

1860.  Mayne, Expos. Lex., Typolithus,… a typolith.

1825.  Hone, Every-day Bk., I. 1038. A new musical work *typolithographied.

1882.  O. W. Holmes, in Atlantic Monthly, LI. 66. The slender intellectual endowments … which are so very frequently observed in association with *typomania.

1890.  P. H. Hunter, After the Exile, II. II. iii. 57. To the Jewish-Christian, misled by the prevailing typomania of his age, the three days’ entombment in the belly of the sea-monster seemed a ‘sign’ of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ.

1884.  Coues, in Auk, Oct., 321. *Typonym, a name based upon indication of a type species, or of a type specimen.

1889.  Pall Mall G., 16 Feb., 1/2. Two publications which will receive and deserve the attention of all *typophils.

1899.  Sci. Amer., 28 Jan., 51/1. Dr. Kolle now declares … that the process of *typo-radiography is … a self-evident and systematic method of procedure.

1887.  A. W. Tuer & C. E. Fagan, First Year of Silken Reign, 1837–8, x. 214 (Cent. Dict.). A ‘cosmorama‘ of the St. Gothard Pass, and the *‘typorama,’ a plaster of Paris model of the Undercliff, Isle of Wight, were two popular exhibitions in Regent Street.

1893.  N. H. Dole in Nation (N.Y.), 13 July, 27/2. For upwards of ten years … I have … spoken and written of work thus composed as *typoscript.

1910.  Times, 26 Sept., 8/1. 40,000 articles … in the form of corrected typoscripts.

1888.  Encycl. Brit., XXIII. 120/1. The automatic *typo-telegraph of Bonelli.

1903.  Electr. World & Engin., 3 Oct., 377 (Cent. D. Supp.). *Typo-telegraphy.

1883.  Pall Mall G., 10 Sept., 11/1. The *typotheter is a machine used for … setting type,… and requires no change in the type, material, or appliances now in use.