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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[Gr. [GREEK] a post, slab, pillar +

-graphy

: cf. Gr. [GREEK] an inscription on a tablet.]

The art of writing or inscribing characters on pillars.

[R.]

Stackhouse.

Noun.

[Gr., a pillar; to write.] The art of writing or inscribing characters on pillars.