Definition of Holograph

1. Noun. Handwritten book or document.

Exact synonyms: Manuscript
Generic synonyms: Autograph
Specialized synonyms: Codex, Leaf-book, Palimpsest, Roll, Scroll

2. Noun. The intermediate photograph (or photographic record) that contains information for reproducing a three-dimensional image by holography.
Exact synonyms: Hologram
Generic synonyms: Exposure, Photo, Photograph, Pic, Picture

Definition of Holograph

1. n. A document, as a letter, deed, or will, wholly in the handwriting of the person from whom it proceeds and whose act it purports to be.

Definition of Holograph

1. Noun. A hologram. ¹

2. Noun. A handwritten document, especially a letter, deed, or will, that is solely the work of the person whose signature it bears; a manuscript. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Holograph

1. [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Medical Definition of Holograph

1. A document, as a letter, deed, or will, wholly in the handwriting of the person from whom it proceeds and whose act it purports to be. Origin: L.holographus entirely autograph, Gr. "olografos; "olos whole + grafein to write: cf. F. Holographe, olographe. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Holograph

holodynamic
holoendemic
holoendemic disease
holoenzyme
holoenzymes
holofoils
hologamies
hologram
hologramlike
hologrammatic
hologrammatically
hologramme
holograms
holograph (current term)
holographed
holographer
holographers
holographic
holographic microscopy
holographic will
holographic wills
holographical
holographically
holographies
holographing
holographs
holography
hologynic

Literary usage of Holograph

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Treatise on the Law of Evidence in Scotland by William Gillespie Dickson, John Skelton (1864)
"9, provides " that holograph missive letters and holograph bonds and subscriptions in compt books without witnesses, not being pursued for within twenty ..."

2. Manual of the Law of Scotland by John Hill Burton (1847)
"holograph Writings. A holograph deed is one of which the whole or all the material part is written by the granter himself; and in consideration of the ..."

3. A Handbook of the Law of Scotland by James Lorimer, Russell Bell (1885)
"holograph Writings.—By 1669, c. 9, it is provided that holograph missive letters, and holograph bonds, and subscriptions in account books, without witnesses ..."

4. A Handbook of Prescription According to the Law of Scotlandby John Hepburn Millar, Mark Napier by John Hepburn Millar, Mark Napier (1893)
"missive letters, and holograph bonds, and subscriptions in The Act 1669, c. 9, 'Statutes and ordains, that holograph Act 1669, ' compt-books without ..."

5. Law of Wills, Executors and Administrators by James Schouler (1915)
"holograph Wills; how far recognized by Legislation. ... 166 NY 330 (holograph wills not Civ. Code, § 1567 et seq. exceptional in solemnities of execu- For ..."

6. The Scots Digest of the Cases Decided in the Supreme Courts of Scotland: And ...by John Condie Stewart Sandeman, Scotland Courts by John Condie Stewart Sandeman, Scotland Courts (1905)
"Held (1) that when an untested writing bearing to be the holograph will of a ... A holograph superscribed document Wiring to bo the writer's last will, ..."

7. Digest of the Scottish Law of Conveyancing: Moveable Rights by John Craigie (1888)
"holograph WRITINGS. — Deeds which are entirely n. holograph holograph, or the substantial parts of which are holograph, do not require to be attested by ..."

8. Rariora: Being Notes of Some of the Printed Books, Manuscripts, Historical by John Eliot Hodgkin (1902)
"(26) a holograph letter. SA (not signed) from Charlotte Walkinshaw to her ... (27) a holograph letter, June 8, 1779, with royal seal, from Charles Edward ..."

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