Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A copy or transcript.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A copy or transcript.
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- noun A perfect
copy , an exacttranscript .
Etymologies
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From Ancient Greek ἀπόγραφον, from ἀπογράφω ("I copy"), from ἀπό ("off, away from") + γράφω ("write").
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Examples
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Often these are of infinitesimal value, transcripts of extant copies of no greater age; but there is always the possibility that they may be a competent scholar's own careful apograph of some ancient MS. which a Poggio had unearthed at St. Gall, and which has since vanished.
The Wanderings and Homes of Manuscripts Helps for Students of History, No. 17. 1899
pavonine commented on the word apograph
a copy;a transcript
November 6, 2007