“epistolographic”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

epistolographic

释义

epistolographic, a.|ɪˌpɪstələʊˈgræfɪk|
[ad. Gr. ἐπιστολογραϕικ-ός, f. ἐπιστολή (see epistle + γράϕ-ειν to write.]
Used in the writing of letters. Applied esp. to the form of the ancient Egyptian character so employed: called also demotic and enchorial. (The Gr. word is thus applied by Clement of Alexandria and Porphyry.)
1699Gale Crt. Gentiles i. i. xi. 64 The method of al Egyptian Leters, which is called Epistolographic.1862H. Spencer First Princ. (1870) 349 The hieratic and the epistolographic or enchorial.
So eˌpistoˈlographer, eˌpistoˈlographist, a writer of letters. eˌpistoˈlography, letter-writing.
1824Dibdin Libr. Comp. 579 Marcus Tullius Cicero, at once an orator, a philosopher and epistolographer.1822New Monthly Mag. VI. 20 Your kinsman and epistolographist, Numenius.1888M. Aragnos in Amer. Annals of Deaf Apr. 102 Epistolography amounts almost to a passion with Helen.

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