steganographyn.

1569 J. Sanford tr. H. C. Agrippa Of Vanitie Artes & Sci. 97 b Steganographie a marueilous kinde of writinge but not commonlye knowne.

1591 H. Wotton Let. 21 Apr. in Reliquiæ Wottonianæ (1685) 647 Concerning the Steganography I can by none of those means that I advertis'd this last Week of, pass further than I have.

1593 R. Harvey Philadelphus 56 The Histories were written in some strange kind of polygraphy and steganography.

1602 J. Willis Art Stenogr. (title page) Where-vnto is annexed a very easie direction for Steganographie, or, Secret Writing.

1677 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 12 862 Steganography, (which word imports the Art of signifying ones mind to another by an occult or secret way of writing).

1780 tr. U. von Troil Lett. on Iceland 299 I afterwards found the same kind of steganography mentioned in a little work ascribed to Rhabanus Maurus.

1823 ‘S. Collet’ Relics Lit. 112 Steganography.

1904 Sat. Rev. 23 July 114/2 Colonel Hime..has elucidated a steganogram contained in his [Roger Bacon's] ‘Epistola de secretis operibus’ which is decisive.

1562 G. Legh Accedens of Armory 227 b This Herehaught is no Steganographer.

1588 J. Harvey Discoursiue Probl. conc. Prophesies 29 Whose mightie and wonderfull proceedings no Poligrapher can expresse, or Steganographer decipher.

1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Steganographist, an Artist in private Writing.

1588 J. Harvey Discoursiue Probl. conc. Prophesies 53 Facing it out with a certaine learned tincture, that should require as well a Steganographicall decipherer, as a logicall, or philosophicall interpreter.

1753 Ld. Chesterfield in World No. 24 I. 213 One of them being already in possession (to speak in their own style) of a more brachygraphical, cryptographical and steganographical secret in writing their warrants.

1780 tr. U. von Troil Lett. on Iceland 299 Another hand has patched in a steganographical writing.