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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Same as autographic.
Wiktionary
- adj. Relating to an autograph, or one's own handwriting.
- adj. Relating to, or used in, the process of autography.
Examples
“A delightfully quirky semi-autographical novel about a talented misfit blessed with the most patient stepfather in history.”
“Kiernan's latest novel, The Red Tree August 2009 is in turns a pseudo-autographical novel, a psychological portrait of a first-person narrator on the verge of madness, and a sometimes terrifying mystery that surrounds a particular red oak tree in Rhode Island. link: OF Blog of the Fallen: Caitlín R.”
“Sharíf = a royal autographical letter: the term is still preserved in Turkey, but Europeans will write”
“The Wezir answered, Send away this young man with me, and I will take charge of him, and despatch him in company with a Chamberlain to the city of Baghdad; and if his words be true, he will bring us a royal autographical mandate and diploma of investiture; and if not true, they will send him back to us with the Chamberlain, and I will take my revenge upon my offender.”
“But your literary prowess is too circuitously authenticated to admit of any punctilious commendation from my debilitated pen, and under its umbrageous recess, serenely segregated, from the malapert and hypochondriachal vapours of myopic critics (as I am no acromatic philosopher) I trust every solecism contained in this autographical epistle will find a salvable retirement.”
“Khatt Sharíf" = a royal autographical letter: the term is still preserved in Turkey, but Europeans will write”
“King Lear's, the moment that _he_ gets a glimpse of him; and the poet betrays throughout that same philosophical interest in the study, which the monarch expresses so boldly; for beside the dramatic exhibition, and the philosophical review of him, which King Lear institutes, here is an autographical sketch of him, and of his mode of living --”
“Written by Canadian author Bernice Thurman Hunter, this semi-autographical tale, despite its serious subject matter, is humorous and touching and brutally honest in its description of life during the Depression.”
“And if you're too "hood" to enjoy will. i.am's sunny synth jingle "I Love My Chick," perhaps you'll be fonder of the hard but impossibly catchy "New York S**t" and the sober Stevie Wonder feature "Been Through the Storm," an autographical tale full of simultaneous sorrow and gratitude.”
“He has taken the central part of the poem, which is quite autographical, of”
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