schedography
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Ancient Greek σχεδογραφία (skhedographía), from σχέδος (“note, composition”) + -γραφία (“writing, drawing”). Compare Italian schedografico.
Noun[edit]
schedography (uncountable)
- (historical) A method of grammar education used in the Byzantine Empire from around 1000 to the 13th century.
- 1933, Steven Runciman, Byzantine Civilization, Cleveland, O.H., New York, N.Y.: Meridian Books, published 1964, pages 184–185:
- [Michael] Psellus prided himself on restoring the science of Schedography, the bugbear of Anna Comnena—it consisted of the minute grammatical analysis of selected passages—exalting Grammar over Literature, in Anna's opinion—and was still highly popular under the Pælzologi. [Manuel] Moschopoulos wrote a schedographical glossary.
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References[edit]
- “SCHEDOGRAPHIA”, in The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium, volume 3, New York, N.Y., Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1991, →ISBN, page 1849, column 1