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单词 autography
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autographyn.

Brit. /ɔːˈtɒɡrəfi/, U.S. /ɔˈtɑɡrəfi/, /ɑˈtɑɡrəfi/
Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly formed within English, by derivation. Partly formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: autograph n., -y suffix3; auto- comb. form1, -graphy comb. form.
Etymology: Partly < autograph n. + -y suffix3 (compare -graphy comb. form), and partly < auto- comb. form1 + -graphy comb. form. With sense 2 compare autobiography n. In sense 4 probably after French autographie (1800); compare slightly earlier autographic adj. 2.
1. The action of writing in one's own hand; a person's handwriting. Now rare.In figurative context in quot. 1644.
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society > communication > writing > handwriting or style of > [noun] > own handwriting
handwriting1421
autography1644
chirography1655
autograph1817
holography1827
autogram1862
1644 J. Bulwer Chirologia 82 By the old autography of the Hand.
1678 G. Harvey Casus Medico-chirurgicus 49 All these following Prescripts are transcribed exactly from the autography of their Bills.
1723 S. Mather Vindic. Holy Bible vi. i. 384 The date of the Autography.
1799 E. Du Bois Piece Family Biogr. II. vi. 119 Rurigenous cook-maids, and automatical bankers' clerks may take care of their autography.
1841 E. A. Poe in Graham's Mag. Nov. 226/2 We see..in Professor Anthon's autography, each and all of the known idiosyncrasies of his taste and intellect.
1871 C. H. Spurgeon Treasury of David II. Ps. xlvii Every expert would here detect the autography of the Son of Jesse.
2004 B. Suchoff B. Bartók v. 82 Corrections, additions, and extensions were made in blue ink..with an autography considerably less neat in appearance.
2. = autobiography n. rare.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > biography > [noun] > types of biography > autobiography or memoirs
story1533
autography1661
memoirs1676
idiographya1734
self-biography1796
autobiography1797
reminiscence1797
autobiog1829
autobio1856
auto1881
curriculum vitae1902
biodata1947
vita1949
c.v.1971
1661 J. Glanvill Vanity of Dogmatizing A viij b Nor doth the last Scene yield us any more satisfaction in our autography, for we are as ignorant how the Soul leaves the light, as how it first came into it.
1914 P. A. Martin in tr. M. de Oliveira Lima Evol. of Brazil 145 Minha Formacão.., a delightful autography.
3. A handwritten manuscript or musical score; these considered collectively. rare.
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society > communication > writing > handwriting or style of > [noun]
handOE
scripturea1400
writing1440
written hand1520
hand write1568
handwriting1571
written hand1580
write1591
calligraphy1645
penmanship1695
hand of write1700
manuscript1771
autography1787
calography1803
calligraph1831
script1834
chirography1838
scription1846
hand lettering1864
back-hand1885
1787 J. Edwards Catal. Select. Coll. Bks. 8 (title) British autography, a collection of fac similes of the hand writing of royal and illustrious personages.
?1825 S. Wesley (title) The words by..Charles Wesley..; set to music by George Frederick Handel; faithfully transcribed from his autography.
1921 H. E. Krehbiel tr. A. W. Thayer Life Beethoven II. viii. 151 In the late Gustav Petter's Collection of Autography..is a sketchbook of Beethoven's.
4. The art or process of making facsimiles by transfer-lithography, in which a drawing, writing, etc., is transferred from paper to stone (or occasionally some other medium, as metal) for printing.Often used as a method of printing musical scores.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > printmaking > surface and planographic printing > lithography > [noun] > types of
autography1828
chromolithography1839
lithochromatography1843
lithochrysography1845
lithochromatic1846
lithochrome1854
oleography1870
autolithography1874
lithochromy1885
tin printing1887
typo-etching1888
transfer-lithography1897
EUV1995
1828 Franklin Jrnl. June 406 It would be a great triumph for autography if we could substitute metallic plates for stones, which, until the present time, have alone been successfully used.
1865 Message President U.S. to Congr. (U.S. Dept. of State) 29 Machines and apparatus employed in stereotyping, mezzotinting, autography, lithography [etc.].
1885 Lithographer & Printer 24 Jan. 114/1 By the term autography we designate..everything that is written with lithographic tushe on transfer paper in order to enable it to be transferred to the lithographic stone.
1922 U.S. Official Postal Guide July 139 The following are..allowed to pass..at the reduced postage:..all impressions or copies obtained upon paper, parchment, or cardboard, by means of printing, engraving, lithography, autography, [etc.].
1992 A. Kent et al. Encycl. Computer Sci. & Technol. XXVII. 96 Music typewriters provide an alternative to engraving and autography.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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