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Webster 1913 Edition


Stelography

Ste-log′ra-phy

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Noun.
[Gr. [GREEK] a post, slab, pillar +
-graphy
: cf. Gr. [GREEK] an inscription on a tablet.]
The art of writing or inscribing characters on pillars.
[R.]
Stackhouse.

Webster 1828 Edition


Stelography

STELOGRAPHY

,
Noun.
[Gr., a pillar; to write.] The art of writing or inscribing characters on pillars.

Definition 2024


stelography

stelography

English

Noun

stelography (uncountable)

  1. The art of writing or inscribing characters on pillars.
    • 1767, Thomas Stackhouse, A new history of the Holy Bible (chapter IV)
      [] this pillar thus engraved (as it was the first of its kind that we have upon record) gave probably the origin to the invention of stelography, or the ancient manner of writing upon stone, ever after []