Definition of "xylographic" []

• Of or pertaining to xylographs (adjective)

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• ""A-- That the Doctrinas of 1593, though printed at Manila, were not executed in type, but by the so-called xylographic method;"
• "Mitigating somewhat his assurance, he speaks following the above-quoted passage of printing in China, and differentiates between xylographic and typographic printing, and since he was obviously thinking in terms of printing on a press with movable type his conclusions are not too extreme."
• "It is not difficult to say with the book itself in front of us, that it is an example of xylographic printing, but it was a great feat on the part of Retana, who had never seen a copy, to resolve apparently irreconcilable differences of opinion on the part of several unquestioned authorities by deducing that it was all a matter of semantics -- what did _printing_ mean?"