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steganography Obs. exc. Hist.|stɛgəˈnɒgrəfɪ|
[ad. mod.L. steganographia (Trithemius 1500), a. assumed Gr. *στεγανογραϕία, f. στεγανό-ς covered + γράϕ-ειν to write: see -graphy. Cf. F. stéganographie (1567 in Hatz.-Darm.).]
The art of secret writing; cryptography. Also, cryptographic script, cipher.
1569J. Sandford tr. Agrippa's Van. Artes 97 b, Steganographie a marueilous kinde of writinge but not commonlye knowne. 1591Wotton Let. to Zouch Rel. W. (1685) 647 Concerning the Steganography I can by none of those means that I advertis'd this last Week of, pass further than I have. 1593R. Harvey Philadelphus 56 The Histories were written in some strange kind of polygraphy and steganography. 1602[J. Willis] Art Stenogr. title-p., Where-vnto is annexed a very easie direction for Steganographie, or, Secret Writing. 1677Phil. Trans. XII. 862 Steganography, (which word imports the Art of signifying ones mind to another by an occult or secret way of writing). 1780tr. Von Troil's Iceland 299, I afterwards found the same kind of steganography mentioned in a little work ascribed to Rhabanus Maurus. 1823‘S. Collet’ Relics Lit. 112 Steganography.
So ˈsteganogram, a cryptogram; stegaˈnographer, stegaˈnographist, one expert in steganography, a cryptographer; steganoˈgraphical a., pertaining to steganography.
1562Legh Armory 227 b, This Herehaught is no Steganographer. 1588J. Harvey Disc. Probl. 29 Whose mightie and wonderfull proceedings no Poligrapher can expresse, or Steganographer decipher. Ibid. 53 Facing it out with a certaine learned tincture, that should require as well a Steganographicall decipherer, as a logicall, or philosophicall interpreter. 1727Bailey vol. II, Steganographist, an Artist in private Writing. 1753Chesterfield in World No. 24 I. 213 One of them being already in possession (to speak in their own style) of a more brachygraphical, cryptographical and steganographical secret in writing their warrants. 1780tr. Von Troil's Iceland 299 Another hand has patched in a steganographical writing. 1904Sat. Rev. 23 July 114/2 Colonel Hime..has elucidated a steganogram contained in his [Roger Bacon's] ‘Epistola de secretis operibus’ which is decisive. |