Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a phonographic manner.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a phonographic manner; by means of phonograph.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb by means of a
phonograph
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Examples
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They presented themselves as Parish Councillors, stolid and clinging phonographically to prearranged statements.
The Food of the Gods and how it came to Earth Herbert George 2004
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The news which it prints and scatters comes to it on the telegraph; long orations are phonographically reported; the very latest mechanical skill is used in its printing; and the world is laid at our feet as we sit at the breakfast-table and read its columns.
English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction Henry Coppee
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The truth is, that, however forms of spelling varied, (as they must where both writers and printers spelt phonographically,) the forms of grammatical construction were as strict then as now.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 16, February, 1859 Various
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"Ladies-at-lunch-dialogue," phonographically recorded, as a party of five guns was approaching the place of lunch, at about 1: 30 P.M. _First Sportsman_ (_addressing his companion_).
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, November 12, 1892 Various
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Also that a ballet corps is coming over to dance in Spanish, and an opera troupe, to sing phonographically, in Hindoostanee.
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The same speeches were used again phonographically at the Electrical Show in Chicago in 1909 -- and now the records are preserved for reproduction a hundred or a thousand years hence.
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The same speeches were used again phonographically at the Electrical
Edison, His Life and Inventions Frank Lewis Dyer 1905
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In many cases such impersonations have been so nearly photographically and phonographically correct that they have afforded the most convincing proof to investigators, and in other cases have been a great consolation to relatives of the spirit who have been thus assured that their loved one was still in actual existence on a higher plane of being.
Genuine Mediumship or The Invisible Powers William Walker Atkinson 1897
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The oration having fortunately been phonographically reported, is now published in response to a very generally expressed desire on the part of citizens of all shades of political belief, who are solicitous that so fitting, a memento of the virtues of Abraham Lincoln should be read by every American patriot.
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He was also the first colored man in the United States to report phonographically the proceedings of the Tenth Grand Triennial Assembly of the Patriarchal Order of Past Grand Masters of the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows in America.
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