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- noun Writers' cramp.
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pavonine commented on the word mogigraphia
Writer's cramp.
December 17, 2007
Gammerstang commented on the word mogigraphia
(noun) - (1) Term for difficult or cramped writing.
--Robert Mayne's Expository Lexicon of the Terms . . . of Medicine and General Science, 1853-1860
(2) Writer's cramp now graphospasm; also in anglicized form, mogigraphy; hence, mogigraphic. From Greek mogi, with toil and pain, used in a few modern Latin pathological terms, as mogilalia, mogilalism, stammering, and mogiphonia, "a difficulty in producing loud vocal sounds with the larynx, ordinary speech remaining," from the Sydenham Society Lexicon.
--Sir James Murray's New English Dictionary, 1908
January 19, 2018