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autograph (iou)



autograph noun, verb, & adjective. E17.
[French autographe or late Latin autographum from Greek autographon use as noun of neut. of autographos written with one's own hand: see AUTO-1, -GRAPH.]
A. noun.
A person's own signature. E17.
Dickens Left our autographs and read those of Other people.
A manuscript in an author's own handwriting; a document signed by its author. M17.
W. W. Skeat The MS. of Piers Plowman..seems to be an autograph of the author.
A person's own handwriting. M19.
N. Hawthorne Poems of Tasso in his own autograph.
A reproduction made by direct facsimile; esp. = AUTOLITHOGRAPH noun. arch. M19.
Comb.: autograph album, autograph book a book in which a person collects the signatures of various people, often with rhymes etc.; autograph-hunter a person who makes a collection of signatures of celebrities.
b. verb trans.
Write with one's own hand. E19.
Write one's signature on or in; sign. M19.
S. Leacock The Prince took the pen and very kindly autographed for us seven photographs of himself. D. Welch A book that had been signed by Walter de la Mare..the first autographed book I had ever held.
C. adjective. Written in the author's own handwriting; (of a painting) done by the artist himself, not by a copier. M19.
P. G. Wodehouse You will appreciate another capture of mine, the autograph manuscript of Don Juan, Canto Nine. Times Literary Supplement Some of the Madonnas..must be wholly or in large part autograph.

didactic (medicine)


didactic


Instructive; denoting medical teaching by lectures or textbooks, as distinguished from clinical demonstrations with patients or laboratory exercises.

Origin: G. Didaktikos, fr. Didasko, to teach