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ichnography|ɪkˈnɒgrəfɪ|
Also 7 erron. igno-.
[a. F. ichnographie (1547 in Hatz.-Darm.), or ad. late L. ichnographia, a. Gr. ἰχνογραϕία a tracing out, ground-plan, f. ἴχνος track, trace + -γραϕία -graphy.]
A ground-plan; the representation of the horizontal section of a building or of part of it (or, rarely, of some object resting on the ground); also, the plan or map of a place.
The sense in the first quot. is doubtful; it may be ‘section’.
1598R. Haydocke tr. Lomatius i. 111 The ichnographie of a mans head. a1638Mede Rem. Apoc. iii. Wks. iii. 589 The Ichnography and Platform of the Temple's Fabrick. 1691Wood Ath. Oxon. II. 704 While he continued in Oxon he drew an exact ichnography of the City of Oxon. 1703Moxon Mech. Exerc. 252 The Ground Plat or Ichnography of each Floor or Story. 1782Jesuits Perspective 3 The geometric ichnography of a column is a circle, of a pedestal is a square. 1865Merivale Rom. Emp. VIII. lxvii. 266 The ichnography of the wall of Antoninus.
b. transf. and fig.
1637Gillespie Eng. Pop. Cerem. Ep. A ij b, [He] taketh the patterne of his religion from the Court Ichnographie. a1711Ken Hymnotheo Poet. Wks. 1721 III. 274 The Serpent..In his own Slime the Ichnography drew, That all his Legions might the Work pursue. 1830Fraser's Mag. I. 32 The theatre is, as it were, the ichnography (ground-plan) of a people. |