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Definition of Ideography
1. Noun. The use of ideograms in writing.
Definition of Ideography
1. n. The representation of ideas independently of sounds, or in an ideographic manner, as sometimes is done in shorthand writing, etc.
Definition of Ideography
1. Noun. The use of ideograms. ¹
2. Noun. logography ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Ideography
1. [n -PHIES]
Medical Definition of Ideography
1. The representation of ideas independently of sounds, or in an ideographic manner, as sometimes is done in shorthand writing, etc. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ideography
Literary usage of Ideography
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of the Art of Writing by William Albert Mason (1920)
"A HISTORY OF THE ART OF WRITING CHAPTER I EVIDENCES OF ideography IN OUR WRITTEN
LANGUAGE EVERY one who has read a printed page of English, or any European ..."
2. Language and Languages by Frederic William Farrar (1878)
"I have already adduced the Hebrew alphabet to show the analogy between the
imitative origin of writing and of speech; I now adduce the Chinese ideography to ..."
3. Chapters on Language by Frederic William Farrar (1873)
"I have already adduced the Hebrew alphabet to show the analogy between the
imitative origin of writing and of speech; I now adduce the Chinese ideography ..."
4. The Monist by Hegeler Institute (1915)
"The aim of this ideography was not to provide a means of dealing ... And the very
important ends for which Frege's ideography was designed were more or less ..."
5. Brief Institutes of General History by Elisha Benjamin Andrews (1887)
"Writing everywhere began with pictures.1 Its stages were, (i) ideography direct,
... ideography was a very inadequate means of expressing thought. ..."
6. Philology by John Peile (1885)
"All this shows how fully ideography was regarded as a method of communication quite
... Speech, ideography, gesture —all these and others—are different, ..."
7. The Algebra of Logic by Louis Couturat (1911)
"The objects of a complete logical symbolism are: firstly, to avoid this disadvantage
by providing an ideography, in which the signs represent ideas and the ..."
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