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papyro-
combining form of Gr. πάπῡρος papyrus (also in sense ‘paper’): as in papyrocracy |pæpɪˈrɒkrəsɪ| nonce wd. [-cracy], government by paper, i.e. by newspapers or literature; papyˈrographer, a writer on papyrus; papyroˈlogical a., pertaining to or dealing with papyrology; papyˈrologist, a student of papyrology; papyrology |pæpɪˈrɒlədʒɪ| [-logy], the study of papyri; papyrophobia |pəpaɪərəʊˈfəʊbɪə| nonce-wd. [-phobia], dread of paper; † papyˈropolist Obs. rare—0 [Gr. πωλεῖν to sell], a seller of paper; paˈpyrotint: see quot.; papyroxylin |pæpɪˈrɒksɪlɪn| [after pyroxylin] (see quot.).
1843Tait's Mag. X. 238 A vow..against sparing one drop of blood which the tribunals had once devoted to the altars of the *Papyrocracy.
1906J. H. Moulton Gram. N.T. Greek I. 159 In the less educated papyrographers we find blunders of this kind.
c1904Encycl. Dict. Suppl., Papyrological. 1925H. S. Jones in Liddell & Scott's Greek-Eng. Lexicon (1940) I. Pref. p. viii, Mr. H. Idris Bell..has supplied valuable notes on recent papyrological publications. 1939A. Toynbee Study of Hist. VI. 74 The benefit of half a century of papyrological enterprise and ingenuity.
1922Glasgow Herald 14 Apr. 5/2 A most helpful Guide prepared..by the well-known papyrologist Mr. H. I. Bell. 1968Sunday Times 25 Aug. 3/5 He spent his winters as a young papyrologist excavating the rubbish-mounds of Græco-Roman cities in Egypt for the significant ‘waste⁓paper’ of a forgotten civilization. 1977Times 28 Oct. 14/3 A famous lost play of antiquity has been discovered..among the Oxyrhyncus papyri,..by Professor Eric Turner, the great papyrologist.
1898Athenæum 24 Dec. 887/1 In the department of *papyrology; if we may use such a word. 1900Ibid. 3 Feb. 140/3 Papyrology is the Greek study which is devouring all the rest.
1790Beattie Moral Sci. I. i. ii. §320 Of this *papyrophobia..I was cured long ago.
1656Blount Glossogr., *Papyropolist..a Seller of Paper.
1897Wall Dict. Photogr. (ed. 7) 435 Papyrotype, Papyrography, or *Papyrotint, modifications of photo-lithography, in which paper is used as material on which the original transfer is made.
1894S. R. Bottone Electr. Instr. Making (ed. 6) 26 Gun⁓paper, or *papyroxyline, is paper which has been immersed for a few seconds in a mixture of nitric and sulphuric acids, and then washed in an abundance of water. Ibid. 27 If papyroxyline is used, it should be made from stout millboard. |