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autograph 1, noun(dictionary)
autograph 2, verb(dictionary)

autograph (iou)



autograph noun, verb, & adjective. E17.
[French autographe or late Latin autographum from Greek autographon use as noun of neut. of autographos written with one's own hand: see AUTO-1, -GRAPH.]
A. noun.
A person's own signature. E17.
Dickens Left our autographs and read those of other people.
A manuscript in an author's own handwriting; a document signed by its author. M17.
W. W. Skeat The MS. of Piers Plowman..seems to be an autograph of the author.
A person's own handwriting. M19.
N. Hawthorne Poems of Tasso in his own autograph.
A reproduction made by direct facsimile; esp. = AUTOLITHOGRAPH noun. arch. M19.
Comb.: autograph album, autograph book a book in which a person collects the signatures of various people, often with rhymes etc.; autograph-hunter a person who makes a collection of signatures of celebrities.
b. verb trans.
Write with one's own hand. E19.
Write one's signature on or in; sign. M19.
S. Leacock The Prince took the pen and very kindly autographed for us seven photographs of himself. D. Welch A book that had been signed by Walter de la Mare..the first autographed book I had ever held.
C. adjective. Written in the author's own handwriting; (of a painting) done by the artist himself, not by a copier. M19.
P. G. Wodehouse You will appreciate another capture of mine, the autograph manuscript of Don Juan, Canto Nine. Times Literary Supplement Some of the Madonnas..must be wholly or in large part autograph.