to lithograph
- verb
- /ˈlɪθəˌgræf/
- Specialized
- The artist carefully lithographed the new designs to ensure vibrant colors and fine details.
Examples
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His lithographed face was so worn from the kisses she had given him and the food she had tried to feed him that she had not even risked bringing him to her classroom.
Fiction book (1996) -
In the workshop, they lithographed the illustrations for the upcoming book, capturing the essence of the original artwork.
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Nevertheless, the women are still idling, looking at lithographed pictures after a long night of entertainment.
Academic text (2014) -
The resulting prints sold for 2 dollars apiece... and were the models for the lithographed covers on a number of magazines.
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Note the seam between two lithographed sheets running vertically to the left of Johnson Square.
Academic text (2011) -
The compass, demitasse spoons, and lithographed tin egg were all spotted recently on eBay.
Blog text (19) -
In the late nineteenth century, with the availability of newspapers, popular magazines, and color lithographed posters, broadsides were relegated to the post office wall.
Academic text (1990) -
For the next twenty-three years, Blake drew, painted, engraved, printed, colored, stippled, and lithographed.
Academic text (1994) -
Although the original image of a table is closely linked to the poet writing poems, the 1955 version reflects the lithographed painting more exactly by establishing the foundation of the composition on the tablecloth, as is evident in the lithograph (Figure 1) rather than on the table, which is not foregrounded.
Academic text (1994) -
It measures forty-seven inches wide and forty-six inches tall, made up of four lithographed sheets carefully glued together at half-inch seams.
Academic text (2011)
Compounds
- Specialized
A machine that makes prints by using a flat stone or metal plate to hold ink
Surface Forms
Etymology
The verb lithograph uses the same Greek parts, litho 'stone' and graph 'write' or 'draw', because the traditional process was to draw on stone and make prints from it. So, to lithograph something is to produce an image or print using that stone-print method.