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phraseogram|ˈfreɪziːəgræm| [irreg. f. Gr. ϕράσις + -gram: see phraseology.] A written character or symbol representing a phrase; spec. in phonography or other shorthand system, a conventional combination of signs or letters standing for a phrase.
1847I. Pitman Man. Phonogr. (ed. 8) 63 An extensive list of phraseograms is given in the ‘Reporter’. 1868Ibid. 15 Phraseogram, a combination of shorthand letters representing a phrase or sentence. 1895W. E. A. Axon in W. Andrews Curious Ch. Customs 251 There are phraseograms for ‘in the name of the Lord’, ‘wherefore said the psalmist’, etc. |