Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A person's own signature or handwriting.
- n. A manuscript in the author's handwriting.
- v. To write one's name or signature on or in; sign.
- v. To write in one's own handwriting.
- adj. Written in the writer's own handwriting: an autograph letter.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Written by one's self; in one's own handwriting: as, an autograph letter.
- n. A person's own handwriting; something written by a person's own hand; an original manuscript or signature.
- n. An autographic press (which see, under press).
- To write with one's own hand.
- To write one's autograph on or in
- To copy or produce in autograph, or by an autographic process. See autographic.
Wiktionary
- n. A person’s own handwriting, especially the signature of a famous or admired person.
- n. A manuscript in the author’s handwriting.
- adj. Written in the author’s own handwriting.
- v. transitive To sign, or write one’s name or signature on a book etc
- v. transitive To write something in one's own handwriting
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. That which is written with one's own hand; an original manuscript; a person's own signature or handwriting.
- adj. In one's own handwriting
WordNet 3.0
- n. a person's own signature
- v. mark with one's signature
- n. something written by one's own hand
Etymologies
- auto- + -graph. From Latin autographum, in turn from Ancient Greek αὐτόγραφον (autographon, "a writing in one’s own hand"). (Wiktionary)
- Late Latin autographum, from neuter of Latin autographus, written with one's own hand, from Greek autographos : auto-, auto- + graphein, to write; see -graph. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“But the thought of anyone wanting my autograph is too overwhelming for me to really comprehend, so it pushes me to being more embarrassed than anything.”
“Crimson autograph is what we leave behind, everywhere man set foot.”
“That's what we call the autograph hounders buzzing around.”
“Mike Sweeney, Royals: About the easiest way to get my autograph is to come to a Royals game and wait in the team parking lot after the game.”
“Now try getting an autograph from the Portland Sea Dogs 'Josh Beckett.”
“I had, on two or three occasions, used a motto of hers in autograph books, just as I had sentiments from Longfellow, Lowell, Shakespeare, Moses, or Paul.”
“Mr. Gotthard replied, 'that he had bought the mazurka as Chopin's autograph from a Polish countess, who, being in sad distress, parted, though with the greatest sorrow, with the composition of her illustrious compatriot.”
“More generally the word autograph refers to "something written or made with one's own hand," such as an original manuscript or a work of art.”
“I would never want an autograph from a book either I’d rather have one from the Writer!”
“Lincoln's 1864 victory speech written in his hand—a document known as an autograph manuscript—sold for more than $3.4 million at Christie's in 2009.”
The Wall Street Journal: The Case of the Disappearing Documents
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘autograph’.
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Writing
graphoanalysis, agraphia, agraphic, anorthography, logagraphia, cipher, code, inscribe, penmanship, cursive, Palmer method, calligraphy and 100 more...
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Unknown
coalition, cabinet, tweet, defuse, steep, ancestral, mindset, breach, infraction, egregious, curb, backbite and 282 more...
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Distinguishing Marks
assay-mark, stamp, seal, cedula, cartouse, cachet, brand, mark, hallmark, armorial device, coat of arms, emblem and 150 more...
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Faux-Vintage: The Wordnik List of Fak...
A list of modern things that either purposely masquerade as antiques, are forgeries, engender nostalgia and play on peoples' desire to surround themselves with items and products that appear to be ...
forgery, fake, autograph, fake Fire King glass, forged autograph, forged painting, Coke memorabilia, reproduction items, faux-vintage, skinny neckties, Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley and 11 more...
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-graph
denoting something written or drawn; denoting a recording instrument
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Theological Words
a priori, adiaphora, advent, agnosticism, amillennialism, anabaptists, postmillennialism, angel, animism, annihilationism, anthropic principle, anthropomorphic and 96 more...
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Vocab Last Semester Exam
evacuated, relief, ritual, belief, practice, reality, enforce, authority, react, exploiting, exploited, exploits and 25 more...
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stanton's Words
msg, sushi, taro, lychee, no big deal, the denver nuggets, swamp, aid-the-poor, rural labourer, toothpick, firecracker, clothes rack and 84 more...
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Unit 1 Week 1
"Goin Someplace Special"
scald, permission, autograph, fare, blurted, clenched, approached, spectacular, propaganda
Tweets
Looking for tweets for autograph.
uselessness True, this works for correcting transcription errors and deciphering illegible characters. But we're still forced to trust the motives of the people who made the transcriptions, that more thorough alterations were not intentionally inserted.
Not that we have any reason to mistrust those folks, most of whom were God-fearing monks. But common sense says we should still consider that possibility for any text, and more heavily so as it is passed through additional hands over the years. Even the most honest person is not without an agenda, and perfect objectivity remains a precious treasure. Dec 18, 2006
andrew.simone Depends what you mean by difficult. Textual Criticism, used for religious purposes or not, gives us a reasonable perspective on the matter. Dec 18, 2006
uselessness My understanding is that no autographs are known to exist today, though as apologists would point out, many reliable copies have been preserved over the centuries. Unfortunately, it's exceedingly difficult to verify "reliability," let alone to recognize an autograph if we found one. Dec 18, 2006
rtaylor32 "An original writing of a biblical document. The original manuscript written. The autographs would be the actual, original written document from which copies are made."
http://www.carm.org/dictionary/dic_a-b.htm#A%20priori Dec 18, 2006