metagraphy

English

Etymology

From meta- +‎ -graphy.

Noun

metagraphy (countable and uncountable, plural metagraphies)

(obsolete, rare, uncountable) Synonym of transliteration
- 1849, A. J. Ellis, “Phonetic Spelling”, in The Prospective Review‎^[1], volume 5, page 306:
  To represent letters like those of Hebrew, Arabic, Armenian, &c., by English characters, is, undoubtedly, a help to the scholar; a help with the special philologist often professes to contemn, but which the comparative philologist often misses. We will call this Metagraphy, or Transliteration.
- 1899 September 9, Sir Isaac Pitman, “The Paris Shorthand Congress of 1900”, in The Phonetic Journal‎^[2], volume 58, page 565:
  Considerable attention will be paid to metagrapnic methods, and to the application of metagraphy to foreign languages.
(art, countable) metagraphics; hypergraphy
- 1983, Stephen C. Foster, Lettrisme: into the present, page 29:
  The rich and free merging of visual arts and literature envisioned by Isou in 1949-1950 under the name of "metagraphy" appeared fertile to many more people than the one proposed earlier with Lettrist painting, left almost unnoticed.
- 2002, Rob Young, Undercurrents: the hidden wiring of modern music, page 191:
  For all their energised glory, the graphic scores of the Cageans (like the metagraphies of the Lettrists, and thus exactly like pre-Futurist scores) demanded a priestcraft to ensure their authentic interpretation.
- 2006, Cartographic Perspectives: Bulletin of the North American Cartographic Information Society:
  In 1950 the Letterist, Maurice Lemaltre, had published Riff-raff, a ten-page "metagraphy," which included a sequence that zoomed from the solar system through a drawing of the earth to maps of Europe, France, and Paris, and Finally one of Saint Germain de Prés.
- 2008, Adriano Spatola, Toward Total Poetry, page 58:
  […] in an attempt to elaborate a sort of hypergraphy, or super-writing, produced to go beyond the limits of the preceding metagraphy, or post-writing.
(linguistics, uncountable) Symbolism that has no counterpart in speech.
- 1987, Alfred Arteaga, Language, Discourse, Sign: Reading Dialogisms in the Texts of Shakespeare and Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz:
  Pilico and Aztec's presence in Spanish ritual, through metagraphy, novelistic speech, and heteroglossia, marks their presence in a dialogue.
- 2002, Katherine Koppenhaver, Attorney's Guide to Document Examination‎^[3], page 253:
  Metagraphy: symbols understood even though they have no conventional counterpart in speech. For example, footprints to illustrate walking or sawing wood for snoring.
- 2014, Farhad Daftary, editor, The Study of Shi‘i Islam: History, Theology and Law‎^[4]:
  Also frequent is the use of a 'key letter' which occurs in both the mathal and mamthūl (metagraphy).

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