Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A document written wholly in the handwriting of the person whose signature it bears.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Wholly written by the person in whose name it appears, as a manuscript document or letter.
  • noun Any writing, as a letter, deed, testament, etc., wholly written by the person from whom it purports to proceed.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A document, as a letter, deed, or will, wholly in the handwriting of the person from whom it proceeds and whose act it purports to be.
  • transitive verb To produce a holographic image of, by holography.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A hologram.
  • noun law A handwritten document, especially a letter, deed, or will, that is solely the work of the person whose signature it bears; a manuscript.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun handwritten book or document
  • noun the intermediate photograph (or photographic record) that contains information for reproducing a three-dimensional image by holography

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[From Late Latin holographus, entirely written by the signer, from Greek holographos : holo-, holo- + -graphos, -graph.]

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Examples

  • In "Enhancing Government," Erwin Chemerinsky provides a kind of holograph of what federalism -- as the federal-state relation is confusingly called -- would resemble if the U.S. were to enter a period of liberal ascendancy.

    One Blueprint For Obama 2008

  • The latter book-urn shares its shelf with a photo of Gill along with the seven editions of his Almanarcana and a massive two volume bibliography of Gill’s writing output (an unpublished holograph manuscript compiled by Gill and various Vanguard researchers).

    The Codex Continual. Official Website of Steven E. Schend 2009

  • The latter book-urn shares its shelf with a photo of Gill along with the seven editions of his Almanarcana and a massive two volume bibliography of Gill’s writing output (an unpublished holograph manuscript compiled by Gill and various Vanguard researchers).

    The Codex Continual. Official Website of Steven E. Schend 2009

  • The latter book-urn shares its shelf with a photo of Gill along with the seven editions of his Almanarcana and a massive two volume bibliography of Gill’s writing output (an unpublished holograph manuscript compiled by Gill and various Vanguard researchers).

    The Codex Continual. Official Website of Steven E. Schend 2009

  • The latter book-urn shares its shelf with a photo of Gill along with the seven editions of his Almanarcana and a massive two volume bibliography of Gill’s writing output (an unpublished holograph manuscript compiled by Gill and various Vanguard researchers).

    The Codex Continual. Official Website of Steven E. Schend 2009

  • The latter book-urn shares its shelf with a photo of Gill along with the seven editions of his Almanarcana and a massive two volume bibliography of Gill’s writing output (an unpublished holograph manuscript compiled by Gill and various Vanguard researchers).

    The Codex Continual. Official Website of Steven E. Schend 2009

  • The latter book-urn shares its shelf with a photo of Gill along with the seven editions of his Almanarcana and a massive two volume bibliography of Gill’s writing output (an unpublished holograph manuscript compiled by Gill and various Vanguard researchers).

    The Codex Continual. Official Website of Steven E. Schend 2009

  • The latter book-urn shares its shelf with a photo of Gill along with the seven editions of his Almanarcana and a massive two volume bibliography of Gill’s writing output (an unpublished holograph manuscript compiled by Gill and various Vanguard researchers).

    The Codex Continual. Official Website of Steven E. Schend 2009

  • The latter book-urn shares its shelf with a photo of Gill along with the seven editions of his Almanarcana and a massive two volume bibliography of Gill’s writing output (an unpublished holograph manuscript compiled by Gill and various Vanguard researchers).

    The Codex Continual. Official Website of Steven E. Schend 2009

  • The latter book-urn shares its shelf with a photo of Gill along with the seven editions of his Almanarcana and a massive two volume bibliography of Gill’s writing output (an unpublished holograph manuscript compiled by Gill and various Vanguard researchers).

    The Codex Continual. Official Website of Steven E. Schend 2009

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  • NOT "hologram"

    December 21, 2006