Definition of "phonography" []

• The science or practice of transcribing speech by means of symbols representing elements of sound; phonetic transcription. (noun)
• A system of shorthand based on phonetic transcription. (noun)

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• "Look at the words 'defective,' 'phonography' and all of it."
• "Manutius and Nicholas Jenson successively excelled, has attained its acme of perfection, and that our grand-children will no longer trust their works to this somewhat antiquated process, now become very easy to replace by phonography, which is yet in its initial stage, and of which we have much to hope.”"
• "Printing, a "somewhat antiquated process" that for centuries "has reigned despotically over the mind of man," would be replaced by "phonography," and libraries would be turned into "phonographotecks.""