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Brachygraphy

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A system of writing using abbreviations or special characters; shorthand. countable, obsolete, uncountable

    "I would for these causes wish him that is melancholy […] to impose some task upon himself, to divert his melancholy thoughts: to study the art of memory […] , or practise brachygraphy, etc., that will ask a great deal of attention […]"

Etymology

From French brachygraphie, from Ancient Greek βραχύς (brakhús, “short”) + -γραφία (-graphía, “writing”).

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