apographic

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adjective

Of or relating to the apograph of a manuscript.

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Meanings

adjectiveapographic (not comparable)
  1. not comparableOf or relating to the apograph of a manuscript.

    According to Westminster, the originals that were the final arbiter were the apographic texts, not the original autographs that nobody has.

    2014, Douglas Wilson, Westminster Systematics, page 10
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    At the same time, we must recognize that any translation, however good, cannot be accorded the status of the autographic or apographic texts.

    2001, Douglas Wilson, Mother Kirk: Essays and Forays in Practical Ecclesiology, page 38

    At first glance, the editions of Bach's works from his lifetime would seem to be as immutable as fair apographic copies of other works of the composer.

    2016, Robin A Leaver, The Routledge Research Companion to Johann Sebastian Bach

    Consequently, a common trace in old and modern document witnesses, as well as in autographic and apographic materials, is their elliptical nature for even if a large dossier génétique has been kept, it only represents a rather small part of the whole making process leading from a mental project to a self-contained work.

    2020, Ariadne Nunes, Joana Moura, Marta Pacheco Pinto, Genetic Translation Studies
  2. not comparablegeographyFine-grained.

    Apographic structures include a number of varieties: feathery or dendritic, augen, gneissose, ichthyoglyptic, etc.

    1958, Akademii͡a nauk SSSR, Proceedings: Geological sciences sections - Volumes 121-123
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    […] the formation of the "stuffed ” variety is spatially and genetically closely related to the incomplete albitization of the graphic and apographic pegmatite.

    1966, Alekseĭ Aleksandrovich Beus, Lincoln Ridler Page, Geochemistry of Beryllium, page 230
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