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单词 pasigraphy
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pasigraphyn.

Brit. /pəˈsɪɡrəfi/, U.S. /pəˈsɪɡrəfi/
Origin: A borrowing from Greek, combined with an English element; modelled on a French lexical item. Etymons: Greek πᾶσι , -graphy comb. form.
Etymology: < ancient Greek πᾶσι for all, dative plural of πᾶς all (see pan- comb. form) + -graphy comb. form, after French pasigraphie (1795).
A system of writing intended to be intelligible to speakers of any language (like the numerals 1, 2, 3, etc.), with characters or numbers rather than words used to represent ideas. Also in extended use: any universal language.
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1796 Monthly Rev. 19 357 Pasigraphy, from πᾶσι to all and γράϕω I write, will not explain the sounds of any known language but the sense of the words of every language, even of that which people have never learnt.
1805 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 14 189 Essay on geological Pasigraphy, or on the manner of representing the phenomena of the stratification of the rocks, by perfectly simple signs.
1855 U.S. Rev. Dec. 500 A sort of universal language for chess... It can be read by any nation in its own tongue: it is a pasigraphy, remarkable alike for conciseness and distinctness.
1870 A. Bachmaier Pasigraph. Dict. & Gram. Introd. Pasigraphy teaches people to communicate with one another in writing by means of numbers, which convey the same ideas in all languages.
1927 E. S. Pankhurst Delphos iii. 20 Amongst the a priori languages may be classed the systems of Pasigraphy, or universal writing. In Pasigraphy each word is given an equivalent sign, generally a number, in each language.
1971 Isis 62 248/1 Chapter 2..deals with..Leibniz's attempts to construct a pasigraphy for expressing logic algorithms.
1995 J. Fentress tr. U. Eco Search for Perfect Lang. (1997) vii. 175 These are all cases of pasigraphy..rather than true languages.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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