chorographic
- adjective
- /ˌkɔːrəˈɡræfɪk/
- Archaic
:
corográfico
- The chorographic map clearly shows the different terrain features of the region.
Examples
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For Richard Kagan, the chorographic city view (as in maps and cartographic painting) is motivated by a desire to represent the urbs with some degree of topographical accuracy.
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The immediate cartographic prototype for such works may even have been a contemporaneous chorographic map of the Troad (the region surrounding Troy) documenting a popular itinerary being followed through it by Roman tourists in these years.
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A final example of chorographic spatial conflation in a Roman landscape painting that should be mentioned features another scene from the life of Paris.
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The primary extant example of a chorographic work is the Nile Mosaic of Palestrina.
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Thus, in referencing the kind of data that was available to its contemporary audience in Spain, the painting maintained the illusion of topographic and chorographic accuracy.
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He incorporates each regional or chorographic segment into a systematic pattern for comparative purposes, advancing the general plan of a universal geography of the oikoumene.
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Historians rely on chorographic descriptions to better understand ancient landscapes.
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In her thesis, she analyzed the chorographic techniques used in medieval manuscripts.
Synonyms
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7.5
Relating to making or studying maps and charts
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8.1
About making or studying maps
How Detailed
Surface Forms
Morphology
chorographic = chorography (semi-transparent) = chorography + ic
Formed from the noun 'chorography' with the adjective-forming suffix '-ic' in a regular way, but 'chorography' and its combining element 'choro-' are rare and may be unfamiliar to many learners.
Etymology
The word chorographic comes from the Greek root chora meaning 'region' and the part -graph meaning 'to write' or 'describe', the same -graph you see in geography and graphic. So chorographic refers to a detailed map or written description of a district or region.