telegraphicadj.

Brit.

/ˌtɛlᵻˈɡrafɪk/, U.S.

/ˌtɛləˈɡræfɪk/

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: telegraph n., -ic suffix.

Etymology: < telegraph n. + -ic suffix. Compare French télégraphique (1679 as †telesgraphique in an isolated attestation (see note); 1796 in sense ‘of or relating to a telegraph’; from 1833 in figurative uses similar to sense 3b), German telegraphisch (1795 or earlier; now usually telegrafisch ). Compare telegraphy n.The French word is attested earliest in †machine telesgraphique (1679 in an isolated attestation), denoting a device for drawing an image of an object from afar, consisting of a pantograph to which a telescope can be attached in such a way that movements of the telescope can be used to produce a drawing of the object being observed.

1. Of or relating to a telegraph; of the nature of or connected with a telegraph system; sent or received by telegraph.

a. With reference to a signalling apparatus or system, such as a semaphore, signal flags, drums, etc.; see telegraph n. 1. Now historical and rare.

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society > communication > indication > signalling > [adjective] > of or relating to a telegraph

telegraphic1793

tellographic1797

1793 Gen. Evening Post 10–13 Aug. An improvement of the Telegraphic Art, that..unites celerity with the most rigorous exactness of results.

1794 tr. in Gentleman's Mag. Sept. 815/2 The new-invented telegraphic language of signals.

1805 Gentleman's Mag. Dec. 1109/1 He then repeated..Lord Nelson's last telegraphic signal, ‘England expects every man will do his duty.’

1829 F. Marryat Naval Officer I. vi. 171 Looking for the telegraphic signal box.

1842 A. Alison Hist. Europe from French Revol. X. lxxvii. 862 On the morning of the 3d March [1815], a telegraphic despatch from the prefect of Toulon announced the landing of Napoleon.

1871 R. M. Ballantyne Iron Horse xvi. 273 The telegraphic signals and auxiliaries..have to be raised and lowered 10,000 times in the twenty-four hours.

1945 G. R. Wells Sila, Son of Congo iv. 145 Tomasi understood the telegraphic message of the Bolenge village drums.

1975 I. Hacking Emergence of Probability ix. 81 In 1641 he [sc. John Wilkins] published Mercury,..a code together with mechanical suggestions for telegraphic semaphore.

2015 P. Moore Weather Exper. i. 17 Chappe's telegraph was truly groundbreaking. Eager to show its potential, enterprising businessmen held telegraphic demonstrations in London's theatres.

b. With reference to an electric telegraph; see telegraph n. 3a. Now historical.

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society > communication > telecommunication > telegraphy or telephony > telegraphy > [adjective]

telegraphic1823

electrographic1868

society > communication > telecommunication > telegraphy or telephony > telegraphy > telegraph > [adjective]

telegraphical1794

telegraphic1823

1823 F. Ronalds Descr. Electr. Telegr. 53 It was possible to keep my telegraphic wire constantly electrified with a very small source of electricity.

1840 C. Wheatstone Let. 26 Oct. in W. F. Cooke Electr. Telegr. (1857) I. 114 The most efficient..means of establishing a telegraphic (or rather a telephonic) communication between two remote points.

1857 Lady Canning in A. J. C. Hare Two Noble Lives (1893) II. 199 The wording of telegraphic messages requires the utmost care.

1877 C. W. Thomson Voy. ‘Challenger’ I. i. 1 The wonderful project of establishing a telegraphic communication between the old world and the new.

1929 Telegr. & Telephone Jrnl. 16 49/1 The transmission of pictures by telegraphic means is coming to the front.

2015 Buffalo News (N.Y.) (Nexis) 4 Apr. d33 Telegraphic printers were improved.

2. In extended use.

†a. Of a letter or character: conspicuously large or capitalized, as in a telegram or on a telegraph board. Obsolete.

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society > communication > indication > signalling > [adjective]

telegraphic1809

society > communication > manifestation > manifestness > [adjective] > strikingly

notablea1398

staring?a1425

loud1535

gross1581

strong1583

signal1591

conspicuous1604

marked1620

remarked1623

ranka1640

signalized1652

bold1678

flaming1706

glaring1706

telegraphic1809

salient1841

howling1865

insistent1868

rampageous1889

the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > visibility > [adjective] > clearly visible > conspicuous

superapparent?a1475

apparent?1541

conspicuous1545

extant1566

conspicable1579

perspicuous1586

kenspeck1590

public1598

prominent1628

eye-taking1635

bold1678

kenspeckle1714

remarkable1726

telegraphic1809

supersalient1843

blatant1889

1809 C. Simeon Let. in W. Carus Mem. Life Simeon (1847) xi. 276 His attacks on me were frequent, with my name in telegraphic characters.

1851 J. Pycroft Cricket Field iv. 60 There sit..Messrs. Caldecourt and Bailey ('tis pity two such men should ever not be umpires), with..large tin telegraphic letters above their heads.

b. Of a style of writing or speaking: concise and elliptical as in a telegram.

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society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > conciseness > [adjective] > elliptical

ecliptical1583

ellipsed1607

elliptical1778

telegraphic1848

telegrammic1858

telegraphese1927

1848 U.S. Mag. & Democratic Rev. May 412 The Telegraphic style, as we shall denominate it, for the benefit of all future writers upon rhetoric, is also terse, condensed, expressive, [etc.].

1896 ‘C. Yorke’ Those Children vi. 51 [His] words..were few, and his speech as telegraphic as though each word were paid for.

1939 Fortune Oct. 152/3 After numerous efforts..two of Allied's own specialists were called in, who finally succeeded, by dint of a telegraphic style, in reducing it to three pages.

1987 P. Crowther Don't tread on Me Pref. p. viii Good friends frequently received only postcards, written in a telegraphic style based on inside jokes and gossip.

2009 N.Y. Mag. 25 May 30/2 Formerly well-rounded adults are forced to MacGyver worldviews out of telegraphic blog posts, bits of YouTube videos, and the first nine words of Times editorials.

c. Psychology. Of speech: consisting of essential content words but lacking function words, esp. as seen in early language acquisition or in a mental disorder.

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the mind > language > [adjective] > terms relating to language acquisition

telegraphic1916

pivotal1963

internalized1965

the mind > language > speech > defective or inarticulate speech > [adjective] > specific disorders

tongue-tied1530

scanning1881

word-deaf1883

word-blind1888

paragraphic1899

paraphasic1899

adenoidal1908

telegraphic1916

adenoidy1926

paragrammatic1956

logorrhœic1960

paragrammatical1962

logorrhœtic1965

1916 Jrnl. Nerv. & Mental Dis. 43 191 The ‘speech forms’ of agrammatism are various. The so-called telegraphic speech is due to disorder of the motor speech-field.

1963 R. Brown & C. Fraser in C. N. Cofer Verbal Behavior & Learning 192 Young children speak a rather uniform telegraphic English.

1978 Sci. Amer. Nov. 92/2 Early telegraphic speech is characterized by short, simple sentences made up primarily of content words: words that are rich in semantic content, usually nouns and verbs.

1989 H. Kolk et al. in L. Menn & L. K. Obler Agrammatic Aphasia v. 224 This means that omissions in telegraphic speech do not immediately reflect the underlying impairment.

2004 D. I. Slobin in J. Langer et al. Biol. & Knowl. Revisited viii. 260 Research on detailed corpora of very early child speech in English..makes it clear that much of early language is item-based rather than reflecting productive combinations of the telegraphic or pregrammatical type.

3. figurative.

a. That signals or conveys information by gesture, facial expression, etc.

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1823 T. Moore Fables Holy Alliance 181 Watchful chaperons,..Who intercept all whisper'd tones, And read your telegraphic faces.

1885 Tinsley's Mag. Aug. 99 An appointment, made by means of a few telegraphic signs in the intervals of ‘double hand over handers’.

1909 J. Davidson Fleet Street 121 The mongrel's telegraphic eyes, bespoke The object of the canine pantomime.

1989 BOMB Fall 58/2 He put an arm around Kitsy and gave Owen a pleased, telegraphic nod.

2002 Time 6 May 28/1 He could do that telegraphic thing.., sending signals to foreign leaders by embedding key phrases and words in otherwise unremarkable statements.

b. Characterized by the rapid communication or handling of information, as if by telegraph (telegraph n. 3a); (also) that operates in a manner likened to a telegraph.

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society > communication > indication > signalling > [adjective] > resembling an (electric) telegraph

telegraphic1856

1856 Christian Cabinet 29 Feb. 3/3 Nature prepares a spacious, a noble, an industrious, a powerful, an elastic, and a kind of telegraphic Mind.

1866 J. Tyndall in Fortn. Rev. 4 15 Who..put the soul into this telegraphic body?

1870 Fortn. Rev. Apr. 411 The story..travelled from mouth to mouth with almost telegraphic rapidity.

1901 K. M. Caffyn Happenings of Jill xxv. 290 This rushed like lightning through Jill's telegraphic brain.

1968 A. Ginsberg Planet News 43 Such knower will delight in secret weapon official Intelligence kodaked in his telegraphic brain.

2002 L. D. Estleman Black Powder, White Smoke xiv. 149 The grayest rumors starting at the top made their way down the river with telegraphic speed.

Compounds

telegraphic address n. now historical a specially registered short or abbreviated address, used for directing telegrams.

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society > communication > telecommunication > telegraphy or telephony > telegraphy > [noun] > telegraphic message > telegraphic address

telegraphic address1868

1868 Deseret Evening News (Salt Lake City, Utah Territory) 9 June Seth Green, P. O., Mumford, Monroe Co., N. Y. Telegraphic address, Caledonia, Livingston Co., N. Y. Ponds, three-fourths of a mile from Caledonia.

1885 List of Subscribers Exchange Syst. (United Telephone Co.) (ed. 6) 4 Fraser & Fraser,..Manufacturers of..Steam Boilers. Telegraphic address, ‘Pressure, London.’

1930 ‘I. Hay’ & P. G. Wodehouse Baa, Baa, Black Sheep i. i. 12 We'll go to the Grotto!..What-ho for the Grott-ho! Telegraphic address—Tighter London!

1963 B.S.I. News May 7/2 BSI's telegraphic addresses have been changed. Overseas cables should now be addressed to ‘Standards London W 1’ and inland telegrams should be addressed to ‘Standards Audley London’.

2013 Independent 17 June 48 Later he and his journalistic partner Christopher Dobson—their joint telegraphic address Rondob became a legend—joined Now magazine.

Derivatives

teleˈgraphically adv. [compare earlier telegraphical adj.] by means of a telegraph, by telegram; in relation to telegraphy; figurative concisely, elliptically.

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society > communication > indication > signalling > [adverb] > by means of telegraph

telegraphically1799

society > communication > telecommunication > telegraphy or telephony > telegraphy > [adverb]

telegraphically1799

by (the) wire1856

1799 Monthly Rev. May 20 Mr. E. accounts telegraphically for the answer given by the Delphic Oracle to Crœsus... ‘The wonder ceases..if we suppose that the priests of the oracle were Telegraphers.’

1808 J. Macdonald Treat. Telegr. Communication Pref. 34 Whenever a word is to be spelt, Telegraphically,..we would recommend, that the mode of giving one letter by each movement be adhered to.

1883 Standard 14 Feb. 5/4 He was summoned telegraphically.

1905 Daily News 17 Mar. 7 Queenstown is cut off telegraphically, all the poles having been blown down.

1928 A. Huxley Point Counter Point v. 93 ‘When's your Elinor coming home? Elinor and Quarles?’ ‘Leaving Bombay to-morrow,’ John Bidlake answered telegraphically.

2012 A. Gill Titanic vii. 160 While flags could be used to signal to other ships, Morse code was used too, both telegraphically and by means of electric signal lights.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	telegraphic
释义	telegraphicadj. Brit. /ˌtɛlᵻˈɡrafɪk/, U.S. /ˌtɛləˈɡræfɪk/ Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: telegraph n., -ic suffix. Etymology: < telegraph n. + -ic suffix. Compare French télégraphique (1679 as †telesgraphique in an isolated attestation (see note); 1796 in sense ‘of or relating to a telegraph’; from 1833 in figurative uses similar to sense 3b), German telegraphisch (1795 or earlier; now usually telegrafisch ). Compare telegraphy n.The French word is attested earliest in †machine telesgraphique (1679 in an isolated attestation), denoting a device for drawing an image of an object from afar, consisting of a pantograph to which a telescope can be attached in such a way that movements of the telescope can be used to produce a drawing of the object being observed. 1. Of or relating to a telegraph; of the nature of or connected with a telegraph system; sent or received by telegraph. a. With reference to a signalling apparatus or system, such as a semaphore, signal flags, drums, etc.; see telegraph n. 1. Now historical and rare. ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > signalling > [adjective] > of or relating to a telegraph telegraphic1793 tellographic1797 1793 Gen. Evening Post 10–13 Aug. An improvement of the Telegraphic Art, that..unites celerity with the most rigorous exactness of results. 1794 tr. in Gentleman's Mag. Sept. 815/2 The new-invented telegraphic language of signals. 1805 Gentleman's Mag. Dec. 1109/1 He then repeated..Lord Nelson's last telegraphic signal, ‘England expects every man will do his duty.’ 1829 F. Marryat Naval Officer I. vi. 171 Looking for the telegraphic signal box. 1842 A. Alison Hist. Europe from French Revol. X. lxxvii. 862 On the morning of the 3d March [1815], a telegraphic despatch from the prefect of Toulon announced the landing of Napoleon. 1871 R. M. Ballantyne Iron Horse xvi. 273 The telegraphic signals and auxiliaries..have to be raised and lowered 10,000 times in the twenty-four hours. 1945 G. R. Wells Sila, Son of Congo iv. 145 Tomasi understood the telegraphic message of the Bolenge village drums. 1975 I. Hacking Emergence of Probability ix. 81 In 1641 he [sc. John Wilkins] published Mercury,..a code together with mechanical suggestions for telegraphic semaphore. 2015 P. Moore Weather Exper. i. 17 Chappe's telegraph was truly groundbreaking. Eager to show its potential, enterprising businessmen held telegraphic demonstrations in London's theatres. b. With reference to an electric telegraph; see telegraph n. 3a. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > communication > telecommunication > telegraphy or telephony > telegraphy > [adjective] telegraphic1823 electrographic1868 society > communication > telecommunication > telegraphy or telephony > telegraphy > telegraph > [adjective] telegraphical1794 telegraphic1823 1823 F. Ronalds Descr. Electr. Telegr. 53 It was possible to keep my telegraphic wire constantly electrified with a very small source of electricity. 1840 C. Wheatstone Let. 26 Oct. in W. F. Cooke Electr. Telegr. (1857) I. 114 The most efficient..means of establishing a telegraphic (or rather a telephonic) communication between two remote points. 1857 Lady Canning in A. J. C. Hare Two Noble Lives (1893) II. 199 The wording of telegraphic messages requires the utmost care. 1877 C. W. Thomson Voy. ‘Challenger’ I. i. 1 The wonderful project of establishing a telegraphic communication between the old world and the new. 1929 Telegr. & Telephone Jrnl. 16 49/1 The transmission of pictures by telegraphic means is coming to the front. 2015 Buffalo News (N.Y.) (Nexis) 4 Apr. d33 Telegraphic printers were improved. 2. In extended use. †a. Of a letter or character: conspicuously large or capitalized, as in a telegram or on a telegraph board. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > signalling > [adjective] telegraphic1809 society > communication > manifestation > manifestness > [adjective] > strikingly notablea1398 staring?a1425 loud1535 gross1581 strong1583 signal1591 conspicuous1604 marked1620 remarked1623 ranka1640 signalized1652 bold1678 flaming1706 glaring1706 telegraphic1809 salient1841 howling1865 insistent1868 rampageous1889 the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > visibility > [adjective] > clearly visible > conspicuous superapparent?a1475 apparent?1541 conspicuous1545 extant1566 conspicable1579 perspicuous1586 kenspeck1590 public1598 prominent1628 eye-taking1635 bold1678 kenspeckle1714 remarkable1726 telegraphic1809 supersalient1843 blatant1889 1809 C. Simeon Let. in W. Carus Mem. Life Simeon (1847) xi. 276 His attacks on me were frequent, with my name in telegraphic characters. 1851 J. Pycroft Cricket Field iv. 60 There sit..Messrs. Caldecourt and Bailey ('tis pity two such men should ever not be umpires), with..large tin telegraphic letters above their heads. b. Of a style of writing or speaking: concise and elliptical as in a telegram. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > conciseness > [adjective] > elliptical ecliptical1583 ellipsed1607 elliptical1778 telegraphic1848 telegrammic1858 telegraphese1927 1848 U.S. Mag. & Democratic Rev. May 412 The Telegraphic style, as we shall denominate it, for the benefit of all future writers upon rhetoric, is also terse, condensed, expressive, [etc.]. 1896 ‘C. Yorke’ Those Children vi. 51 [His] words..were few, and his speech as telegraphic as though each word were paid for. 1939 Fortune Oct. 152/3 After numerous efforts..two of Allied's own specialists were called in, who finally succeeded, by dint of a telegraphic style, in reducing it to three pages. 1987 P. Crowther Don't tread on Me Pref. p. viii Good friends frequently received only postcards, written in a telegraphic style based on inside jokes and gossip. 2009 N.Y. Mag. 25 May 30/2 Formerly well-rounded adults are forced to MacGyver worldviews out of telegraphic blog posts, bits of YouTube videos, and the first nine words of Times editorials. c. Psychology. Of speech: consisting of essential content words but lacking function words, esp. as seen in early language acquisition or in a mental disorder. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > [adjective] > terms relating to language acquisition telegraphic1916 pivotal1963 internalized1965 the mind > language > speech > defective or inarticulate speech > [adjective] > specific disorders tongue-tied1530 scanning1881 word-deaf1883 word-blind1888 paragraphic1899 paraphasic1899 adenoidal1908 telegraphic1916 adenoidy1926 paragrammatic1956 logorrhœic1960 paragrammatical1962 logorrhœtic1965 1916 Jrnl. Nerv. & Mental Dis. 43 191 The ‘speech forms’ of agrammatism are various. The so-called telegraphic speech is due to disorder of the motor speech-field. 1963 R. Brown & C. Fraser in C. N. Cofer Verbal Behavior & Learning 192 Young children speak a rather uniform telegraphic English. 1978 Sci. Amer. Nov. 92/2 Early telegraphic speech is characterized by short, simple sentences made up primarily of content words: words that are rich in semantic content, usually nouns and verbs. 1989 H. Kolk et al. in L. Menn & L. K. Obler Agrammatic Aphasia v. 224 This means that omissions in telegraphic speech do not immediately reflect the underlying impairment. 2004 D. I. Slobin in J. Langer et al. Biol. & Knowl. Revisited viii. 260 Research on detailed corpora of very early child speech in English..makes it clear that much of early language is item-based rather than reflecting productive combinations of the telegraphic or pregrammatical type. 3. figurative. a. That signals or conveys information by gesture, facial expression, etc. ΚΠ 1823 T. Moore Fables Holy Alliance 181 Watchful chaperons,..Who intercept all whisper'd tones, And read your telegraphic faces. 1885 Tinsley's Mag. Aug. 99 An appointment, made by means of a few telegraphic signs in the intervals of ‘double hand over handers’. 1909 J. Davidson Fleet Street 121 The mongrel's telegraphic eyes, bespoke The object of the canine pantomime. 1989 BOMB Fall 58/2 He put an arm around Kitsy and gave Owen a pleased, telegraphic nod. 2002 Time 6 May 28/1 He could do that telegraphic thing.., sending signals to foreign leaders by embedding key phrases and words in otherwise unremarkable statements. b. Characterized by the rapid communication or handling of information, as if by telegraph (telegraph n. 3a); (also) that operates in a manner likened to a telegraph. ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > signalling > [adjective] > resembling an (electric) telegraph telegraphic1856 1856 Christian Cabinet 29 Feb. 3/3 Nature prepares a spacious, a noble, an industrious, a powerful, an elastic, and a kind of telegraphic Mind. 1866 J. Tyndall in Fortn. Rev. 4 15 Who..put the soul into this telegraphic body? 1870 Fortn. Rev. Apr. 411 The story..travelled from mouth to mouth with almost telegraphic rapidity. 1901 K. M. Caffyn Happenings of Jill xxv. 290 This rushed like lightning through Jill's telegraphic brain. 1968 A. Ginsberg Planet News 43 Such knower will delight in secret weapon official Intelligence kodaked in his telegraphic brain. 2002 L. D. Estleman Black Powder, White Smoke xiv. 149 The grayest rumors starting at the top made their way down the river with telegraphic speed. Compounds telegraphic address n. now historical a specially registered short or abbreviated address, used for directing telegrams. ΘΚΠ society > communication > telecommunication > telegraphy or telephony > telegraphy > [noun] > telegraphic message > telegraphic address telegraphic address1868 1868 Deseret Evening News (Salt Lake City, Utah Territory) 9 June Seth Green, P. O., Mumford, Monroe Co., N. Y. Telegraphic address, Caledonia, Livingston Co., N. Y. Ponds, three-fourths of a mile from Caledonia. 1885 List of Subscribers Exchange Syst. (United Telephone Co.) (ed. 6) 4 Fraser & Fraser,..Manufacturers of..Steam Boilers. Telegraphic address, ‘Pressure, London.’ 1930 ‘I. Hay’ & P. G. Wodehouse Baa, Baa, Black Sheep i. i. 12 We'll go to the Grotto!..What-ho for the Grott-ho! Telegraphic address—Tighter London! 1963 B.S.I. News May 7/2 BSI's telegraphic addresses have been changed. Overseas cables should now be addressed to ‘Standards London W 1’ and inland telegrams should be addressed to ‘Standards Audley London’. 2013 Independent 17 June 48 Later he and his journalistic partner Christopher Dobson—their joint telegraphic address Rondob became a legend—joined Now magazine. Derivatives teleˈgraphically adv. [compare earlier telegraphical adj.] by means of a telegraph, by telegram; in relation to telegraphy; figurative concisely, elliptically. ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > signalling > [adverb] > by means of telegraph telegraphically1799 society > communication > telecommunication > telegraphy or telephony > telegraphy > [adverb] telegraphically1799 by (the) wire1856 1799 Monthly Rev. May 20 Mr. E. accounts telegraphically for the answer given by the Delphic Oracle to Crœsus... ‘The wonder ceases..if we suppose that the priests of the oracle were Telegraphers.’ 1808 J. Macdonald Treat. Telegr. Communication Pref. 34 Whenever a word is to be spelt, Telegraphically,..we would recommend, that the mode of giving one letter by each movement be adhered to. 1883 Standard 14 Feb. 5/4 He was summoned telegraphically. 1905 Daily News 17 Mar. 7 Queenstown is cut off telegraphically, all the poles having been blown down. 1928 A. Huxley Point Counter Point v. 93 ‘When's your Elinor coming home? Elinor and Quarles?’ ‘Leaving Bombay to-morrow,’ John Bidlake answered telegraphically. 2012 A. Gill Titanic vii. 160 While flags could be used to signal to other ships, Morse code was used too, both telegraphically and by means of electric signal lights. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1793
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