stylographic

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   relating to writing or drawing with a stylus or similar pointed instrument

   The archive preserves stylographic tracings made on waxed tablets.

2. 2
   adj

   designating a fountain pen whose fine tubular point contains a needle that controls the flow of ink

   The surveyor kept a stylographic pen in his field case.

Formed from stylo-, referring to a stylus or pointed writing tool, + graphic ("of writing or drawing"); equivalently, stylography + -ic. Stylus comes from Latin stilus, a pointed instrument used for writing.

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