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▪ I. chorography1|kɒˈrɒgrəfɪ|
[a. F. chorographie, or ad. L. chōrographia, a. Gr. χωρογραϕία, f. χώρα or χῶρος + -γραϕια writing. A term, with its family of words, greatly in vogue in 17th c., but now little used, its ancient sphere being covered by geography and topography jointly.]
1. The art or practice of describing, or of delineating on a map or chart, particular regions, or districts; as distinguished from geography, taken as dealing with the earth in general, and (less distinctly) from topography, which deals with particular places, as towns, etc.
1559W. Cuningham Cosmogr. Glasse 7 Chorographie shewith the partes of th' earth diuided in themselues. 1570Dee Math. Pref. 17 Chorographie seemeth to be an underling, and a twig, of Geographie. 1677Plot Oxfordsh. 299 Except there be any thing of Chorography in the Map of Oxfordshire prefixt to this Essay. 1862Merivale Rom. Emp. (1865) IV. xxxix. 402 The curious specimen of ancient chorography called the Peutinger Table.
2. concr. A description or delineation of a particular region or district.
1570–6Lambarde Peramb. Kent (1826) 157, I having undertaken the chorography of this shyre. 1683Cave Ecclesiastici, Eusebius 19 The first [Book] containing a Chorography of Judæa. 1850J. Leitch Müller's Anc. Art. 626 A pictorial chorography and ethnography.
3. transf. The natural configuration and features of a region (which form the subject matter of its chorography in sense 2). (Cf. geography.)
1617Moryson Itin. iii. i. i. 12 Let a Traueller obserue..the fruitfulnesse of each Countrey..the healthfulnesse of the Aire, the Chorography, etc. 1643Sir T. Browne Relig. Med. ii. §8, I have..seene severall Countries, beheld the nature of their climes, the Chorography of their provinces, etc. 1851Sir F. Palgrave Norm. & Eng. I. 343 Renders its chorography singularly conspicuous.
▪ II. chorography2 ? Obs.|kɒˈrɒgrəfɪ|
[f. Gr. χορό-ς dance + -γραϕια writing: cf. choreography.]
The art of dance notation.
1710J. Essex (title) Treatis of Chorography, or the art of dancing Country Dances after a new Character. Translated from the French of Monsieur Feuillet. 1806Ann. Rev. IV. 720 Chorography, or the art of writing dances in specific characters. 1877Encycl. Brit. s.v. Dance, Chorography, or orchesography, the art of dancing notation. |