paleographic
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- adjective
- /ˌpælɪəˈɡræfɪk/
- Specialized
- The professor gave a lecture on paleographic techniques used to analyze ancient manuscripts.
- paleographic argument
- paleographic identification
- paleographic features
Examples
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Instead, he published the two paleographic editions side by side.
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In 1916, Thompson published Shakespeare's Handwriting: A Study, the first, longest, and exclusively paleographic argument.
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So reports of paleographic data are not beyond some suspicion.
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As a result, the paleographic argument cannot be scientific, or its conclusion conclusive.
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The paleographic argument suffers from fundamental difficulties in determining its data.
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The history of the paleographic argument connecting Sir Thomas More and Shakespeare is a narrative of ambiguous terms, misconceptions, and mistakes.
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Such should be the lesson of the hundred-year history of one flawed and failed paleographic argument after another to achieve consensus that Hand D is Shakespeare's.
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A prefatory comment: Dawson adopted a slanted rhetorical strategy to address the paleographic argument for identification.
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To support Theobald's emendation, Dawson constructs a biographical and paleographic analysis that verges on the absurd.
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Students in the paleographic course studied various scripts from different historical periods.
Synonyms
Relating to the study of old handwriting and ancient books
Surface Forms
Morphology
paleographic = paleography (transparent) = paleography + ic
Derived directly from the noun 'paleography' with the regular adjectival suffix '-ic', so the meaning is clearly related to the study or style of ancient writing.
Etymology
The word paleographic comes from the Greek parts paleo- meaning 'old' and graph meaning 'to write', the same root you see in autograph and graphic. So paleographic work studies old handwriting or scripts to learn who wrote them and when.