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pasigraphy|pəˈsɪgrəfɪ|
[irreg. f. Gr. πᾶσι for all + -graphy.]
A name given to a system of writing proposed for universal use, with characters representing ideas instead of words, so as to be (like the ordinary numerals 1, 2, 3, etc.) intelligible to persons of all languages. Applied originally to a system proposed in 1796; subsequently to others having a similar object.
1796in Monthly Rev. XIX. 357 Pasigraphy, from πᾶσι to all and γράϕω I write, will not explain the sounds of any known language but the sense of the words of every language, even of that which people have never learnt. 1797T. Brown in Welsh Life i. (1825) 35. 1801 Sk. Paris as it was II. xl. 45 It is also in contemplation to teach a blind pupil pasigraphy, or universal language, invented by Demaimieux. 1805Med. Jrnl. XIV. 189 Essay on geological Pasigraphy, or on the manner of representing the phenomena of the stratification of the rocks, by perfectly simple signs. 1870Bachmaier Pasigraph. Dict. & Gram. Introd., Pasigraphy teaches people to communicate with one another in writing by means of numbers, which convey the same ideas in all languages.
Hence ˈpasigraph v. trans., to express or represent in pasigraphy; pasiˈgraphic, -ical adjs., of or pertaining to pasigraphy.
1796in Monthly Rev. XIX. 357 At the end of a very few hours, any intelligent person may pasigraph his own idiom, by consulting the method, characters, and the twelve invariable rules. 1797W. Taylor in Monthly Rev. XXIV. 563 Over each column is stationed one letter of the pasigraphic alphabet. 1804― in Crit. Rev. Ser. iii. I. 382 The figures of arithmetic are already pasigraphic. 1839Proc. Amer. Philol. Soc. I. 121 The Chinese alphabet forms a sort of pasigraphic system. 1852Jerdan Autobiog. II. 221. 1870 Bachmaier (title) Pasigraphical Dictionary and Grammar. |