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tachygraphy|tæˈkɪgrəfɪ|
[f. Gr. ταχύ-ς swift + -graphy.]
‘The art or practice of quick writing’ (J.); variously applied to shorthand, and (in palæography) to cursive as distinguished from angular letters, to the Egyptian hieratic, and to the Greek and Latin writing of the Middle Ages with its many abbreviations and compendia.
1641Shelton (title) Tachygraphy. The most exact and compendious methode of short and swift writing. 1656Blount Glossogr., Tachygraphy, the art or description of swift writing. 1778Kippis Biog. Brit. (ed. 2) I. 538 note, Thomas Shelton became famous..for his Tachygraphy; or easy, exact, and speedy short writing. 1826Edin. Rev. XLV. 145 The Hieratic..is immediately derived from the hieroglyphic, of which it is merely a tachygraphy. 1890E. M. Thompson in Classical Rev. May 220/1 The twofold system of tachygraphy, if it may be so termed, in use among the scribes of the middle ages. |