papyrograph
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English
Etymology
Noun
papyrograph (plural papyrographs)
- (historical) An early device for reproducing documents by means of a paper stencil and corrosive ink.
- (rare, obsolete) Synonym of papyrology.
Derived terms
Verb
papyrograph (third-person singular simple present papyrographs, present participle papyrographing, simple past and past participle papyrographed)
- (historical) To use a papyrograph; to copy by means of a papyrograph.
- 1892 November 1, Mary Whiton Calkins, “Experimental Psychology at Wellesley College”, in The American Journal of Psychology, page 465:
- Papyrographed descriptions of the experiments were distributed to the students and commented on in class before the experiments were undertaken.
References
- “papyrograph, n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. - “† papyrograph, v.”, in OED Online , Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018.
