单词 | logographic |
释义 | logographicadj. 1. Pertaining to logography (see logography n. 1). ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > specific methods or processes > [adjective] > printing by logotype logographic1784 1784 London Chron. No. 4287 Logographic Office, Black Friars, April 15. By His Majesty's Royal Letters Patent for printing by words intire instead of single Letters. 1785 (title) Miscellanies in Prose and Verse intended as a Specimen of the Types, at the Logographic Printing Office. 1882 C. Pebody Eng. Journalism xiii. 94 John Walter..set all the printers in London by the ears with his whim about logographic printing. 2. Consisting of characters or signs, each of which singly represents a complete word. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > system of writing > [adjective] > symbolic > one letter one word logographic1801 lexigraphic1836 1801 J. Hager Babylon. Inscript. 53 Goguet makes no distinction between hieroglyphic, and, as I call them, monogrammatic or logographic characters. 1828 P. S. Du Ponceau Diss. Nature & Char. Chinese Syst. Writing (1838) 110 I would not call the Chinese characters a syllabic, but a logographic system of writing. 1970 Language 46 959 It now appears that the Proto-Indian script is a purely logographic script based on the so-called rebus principle. Derivatives logoˈgraphical adj. ΚΠ 1828–32 in N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online March 2018). < adj.1784 |
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