Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Of or pertaining to tachygraphy; written in shorthand. Encyc.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Of or pertaining to tachygraphy; written in shorthand.

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  • adjective Of or relating to tachygraphy; written in shorthand.

Etymologies

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Compare French tachygraphique.

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Examples

  • Having devised varying tachygraphic hands for friends and acquaintanoes, 'twill be amusing taking to a hand that is exactly what its name declares.

    A different flesh Turtledove, Harry 1988

  • Seeing no flaw in this logic, resolve tomorrow to do this from its tachygraphic state, bereft, of course, of maunderings and privacies, for prospectus to the Royal Society, and mightily wondering whatever they shall make of it.

    A different flesh Turtledove, Harry 1988

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