a1637 B. Jonson Under-woods lxxxiv. ix. 154 in Wks. (1640) III [God] can Find..Our closest Creekes, and Corners, and can trace Each line, as it were graphick, in the face.

c1756 Epit. G. Vertue in H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Painting (1782) V. 267 With..all the genius of the Graphic Art, His fame shall each succeeding artist own.

1828 C. Lamb Guy Faux in Elia 2nd Ser. 143 I only notice the print as being one of the earliest graphic representations which woke my childhood into wonder.

1872 J. Ruskin Eagle's Nest §123 This faculty of sight..is the only proper faculty which the graphic artist is to use in his inquiries into nature.

1882 P. G. Hamerton (title) The Graphic Arts: a Treatise on the Varieties of Drawing, Painting and Engraving.

1949 Sci. Amer. Nov. 29 The new Graphic Arts Research Foundation, whose work is supported by 139 newspapers, printing firms and other interested groups.

1956 H. Williamson Methods Bk. Design Pref. Principles of graphic design which apply to all kinds of book production.

1967 R. R. Karch & E. J. Buber Graphic Arts Procedures: Offset Processes ii. 9 Of the many methods and procedures used in the graphic arts, letterpress and offset-lithography account for 66·1% in monetary value.

1971 G. Perry & A. Aldridge Penguin Bk. Comics (ed. 2) Bastard title p. Alan Aldridge is one of the most original and creative graphic designers... His unique style of illustration has appeared in countless magazines, newspapers, record sleeves, posters.

1669 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. I iii. i. 15 He shews..that Poesie was..a graphic Art, or Art of Imitation.

a1745 J. Swift Dan Jackson's Pict. 1 Whilst you three merry poets traffic To give us a description graphic Of Dan's large nose in modern Sapphic.

1830 A. Cunningham Lives Brit. Painters (ed. 2) II. 228 They are all..graphic copies of common life.

1852 H. B. Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin I. i. 14 Expressions, which not even the desire to be graphic in our account shall induce us to transcribe.

1856 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. (1858) I. iii. 265 A Venetian..wrote..to Henry, informing him in a very graphic manner of the treatment to which..he had been exposed.

1872 C. Darwin Expression Emotions Man & Animals xi. 260 A graphic description of the face of a young Hindoo at the sight of castor-oil.

1969 Jrnl. Audio Engin. Soc. 17 20/1 This circuit could easily be adapted to be a section of a graphic equalizer.

1976 Gramophone May 1826/2 The graphic equalizer is not for every hi-fi customer, because it does require some skill, time and patience in usage... JVC was the first to offer in their stereo and four-channel receivers a relatively simple 5-ganged sound equalisation system which went beyond the conventional tone controls.

1984 Listener 3 May 21/1 (advt.) It also boasts a twin deck cassette player with Dolby B and C and a stereo amplifier with graphic equalizer.

1960 Design Sept. 79/1 The type of credits designed by Saul Bass are an isolated example of good graphics for movies.

1965 Amer. Notes & Queries Apr. 122/1 A graphics exhibition centering on the production of a recent book published by the famous Gehenna Press.

1967 M. McLuhan & Q. Fiore Medium is Massage (back-flap of dust-cover) Quentin Fiore is a distinguished graphics designer and artist.

1971 Guardian 12 Oct. 8/2 Graphics, textile design, ceramics..and many other design courses.

1961 Webster's 3rd New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang.

1967 Listener 2 Mar. 296/3 There is an exhibition of Polish graphics. These are not prints but examples of graphic design... Typography is used as an essential element in the design rather than as adjunct to photography and illustration.

1969 Computers & Humanities 4 66 Since the first computers used typewriters and punched cards, the first graphics were illustrations using clever combinations of typing characters, or simple arrays of holes.

1970 Guardian 17 June 12/6 At present neither multiples nor graphics (that is prints of all kinds) sell in really mass editions.

1861 A. Geikie Mem. E. Forbes xi. 330 This is brought out with a melancholy graphicness in his letters to Mr. Thompson.

1890 Illustr. Sporting & Dramatic News 13 Sept. 23/3 I went on to describe with equal graphicness encounters with beasts.

1856 N.Y. Times 6 Dec. 3/2 The publishers..say it is a ‘graphic and thrilling description of a wrecking scene on the coast of New Jersey’, but it is not very graphic nor particularly thrilling.

1927 B. J. Stern Social Factors in Med. Progress 56 Condemning vaccination in violent abusive language and describing its resultant horrors in graphic detail.

1969 H. Raymont in N.Y. Times 24 Mar. 56/2 In addition to graphic, though simulated, scenes of sexual intercourse there is a frenzy of homosexual and other unorthodox sexual acts.

1976 Newsweek (Nexis) 24 May 22 His book was a pulpy thriller offering an intriguing view of the Washington power game, some locker-room sex, graphic violence.

2001 Mirror (Electronic ed.) 9 July A bit of graphic sex education doesn't do much harm to the average horny, hormone-crazed teenager.

1937 H. Shephard in Life 13 Sept. 9/2 Its finest department—color reproductions—has been wasted recently on airplanes and airplane cross-sections which are quite as graphic in black and white.

1954 Life 19 Apr. 85/1 For Executive Suite the studio picked a fabulous cast of eight stars... It was graphic, and probably not accidental, proof that M-G-M, long vaunted as the studio of the stars, could still throw in an all-American lineup if it felt like it.

a1961 B. Burns in Webster's 3rd New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. (1961) (at cited word) Plush buildings..which I saw as a graphic contrast to the slums.

1997 Independent (Electronic ed.) 17 Dec. The people in our new television ads are graphic examples of the pain and suffering caused by smoking.