Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The art or practice of rapid writing or shorthand, especially the stenography of the ancient Greeks and Romans.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Stenography, or the art of writing in abbreviations: used especially for the stenographic systems of the ancient Greeks and Romans. The signs used by the Romans were known as Tironian notes. See
Tironian .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The art or practice of rapid writing; shorthand writing; stenography.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The art and practice of
rapid writing . - noun
Stenography orshorthand as done inancient andmediæval times.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a method of writing rapidly
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Examples
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Meseems it is in its way a style of tachygraphy or short-hand such as I use to set down these pages.
A different flesh Turtledove, Harry 1988
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More than this, Innocent needed a secretary for his vast correspondence, and, struck with the tachygraphy of Kallias, had asked him to return to Rome after he had delivered his missives, and to take a permanent place in his household.
Gathering Clouds: A Tale of the Days of St. Chrysostom 1831-1903 1895
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Councils -- e.g. Chalcedon -- seem to be due to very successful tachygraphy.
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It is believed that tachygraphy was known from very early times, and Xenophon is said to have
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I must leave it for experts in tachygraphy to decide whether the style of the Tironian notes is that of the school of Orléans.]
A Sixth-Century Fragment of the Letters of Pliny the Younger A Study of Six Leaves of an Uncial Manuscript Preserved in the Pierpont Morgan Library New York Edward Kennard Rand 1908
vanishedone commented on the word tachygraphy
LRB: 'In early modern England, tachygraphy, tachography, zeitography, zeiglography, semigraphy, semography all vied for the loyalty of court recorders, parliamentary reporters, diarists (think of Pepys), clergymen (who used it to rip off each other’s sermons) and theatregoers (who used it the way some filmgoers use a handicam). Dickens broke into parliamentary reporting by memorising Thomas Gurney’s book, Brachygraphy, or, an Easy and Compendious System of Shorthand.'
May 12, 2009