rotographn.
/ˈrəʊtə(ʊ)ɡrɑːf/, /ˈrəʊtə(ʊ)ɡraf/, U.S. /ˈroʊdəˌɡræf/ Now chiefly historical.
A black and white photographic print in which positive and negative tones are reversed, formerly used esp. for reproductions of manuscripts and the printed page.
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tithonograph1842
platinotype1844
daguerreotype1849
crystallotype1852
catalysotype1853
black print1855
sun print1855
blueprint1857
ferrotype1857
tin-type1864
pyro-photograph1869
opalotype1873
gelatine picture1875
hellenotype1875
panotype1875
silver print1878
autophotograph1880
platinum print1881
bromide print1885
solar1889
solar print1889
shadowgraph1896
skiagraph1896
rotograph1899
autochrome1902
rayogram1932
reduction print1933
photogram1934
blow-up1945
Polaroid1953
opaque1959
bromide1967
1899 Trade Marks Jrnl. 12 Apr. 408 Rotograph... Photographs, photographic paper, and printed or other books or papers... The Rotary Photographic Company, Limited... 20th May 1898.
1908 Dial 16 July 32/1 The library there has recently acquired a rotograph facsimile of a Worcester Cathedral manuscript.
1923 L. Thorndike Hist. Magic & Exper. Sci. II. xlii. 171/2 From rotographs of fols. 98r-v, 100r, and 105r, I judge that this copy is identical with Arundel 377.
1960 A. G. Kennedy & D. B. Sands Conc. Bibliogr. Students of Eng. (ed. 4) 390 A list of rotographs and microfilms placed on deposit at the Library of Congress by the Modern Language Association of America and available through interlibrary loan.
2009 R. W. Pfaff Liturgy Medieval Eng. iv. 143 By that time, at least, he had secured complete rotographs of the MS.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
rotographv.
/ˈrəʊtə(ʊ)ɡrɑːf/, /ˈrəʊtə(ʊ)ɡraf/, U.S. /ˈroʊdəˌɡræf/ Now rare.
transitive. To make a rotograph of. Usually in passive. Cf. rotograph n.
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1911 D. S. Margoliouth Poetics Aristotle p. xv * Indicates that the MS. has been rotographed for this edition, and that the rotograph is to be found in the Bodleian Library.
1914 Eng. Hist. Rev. Oct. 727 The chancellor of the diocese of London, by whose permission the extract which follows was rotographed.
1944 Jrnl. Royal Asiatic Soc. Oct. 156 This copy has since been unfortunately lost from an exhibition of Indian books; but fortunately the whole of it had been rotographed.
Derivatives
ˈrotographing n.
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1919 Ann. Rep. Amer. Hist. Assoc. 1916 xiii. 403 The amount of labor of eye and hand and the necessary expense for rotographing, typewriting, and the like will be great and must depend on cooperative effort.
1937 Speculum 12 144 The Extended Rotograph Service of the Modern Language Association will be available..in 1937 for the rotographing of material in the field of mediaeval studies.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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