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psyˈchographer
[f. psychograph + -er1; see -grapher.]
1. An instrument or medium by which psychographs (sense 1) or spirit-writings are written; (see also quot. 1876).
1854Dickens Lett., to Rev. J. White 7 Mar., A thing called a Psychographer, which writes at the dictation of spirits. 1876A. Blackwell Kardec's Medium's Bk. 447 Psychographer... A person who writes by psychography; a writing medium.
2. = psychobiographer.
1912G. Bradford Lee the American 269 The prince of all psychographers is incontestably Sainte-Beuve. 1930London Mercury Feb. 378 He does not attempt a new ‘life’, but only a new character-study from the point of view of the ‘psychographer’. |