Meaning of catagraph | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A rough draft of a picture; an outline or sketch.
   obsolete
2. A brief, incomplete description; an outline.
   obsolete
3. A structure made from the traces of canals or cavities believed to be produced by cyanophytes or bacteria during the Late Precambrian and Lower Cambrian eras.

Examples

“till to A picture's first rude catagraph, the art Of an ingenious pencil doth impart Each complement of skill;”

“Somewhat maye this catagraph or portrature following serve⟳ to expresse the presentment of this great king Powhatan.”

“A score⟳ or more of bold, daedal strokes upon paper, and the corner-stone was laid of the edifice destined to contain⟳ George Weldon's brightest dreams, his "all of life," though it was only with the exultation of an artist, gloating over the acquisition of so fair a specimen, that he safely stowed away the catagraph which promised him so much, casting but little thought upon the fact that often "the things we make⟳ no account of have⟳ in them the seeds of life;"”

“We have⟳ yet another to describe⟳ in our catagraph of the genus—the Snout. This is a nose concerning which there can be no mistake⟳.”

“Reader, in this little volume— a catagraph— the career of Lafayette from early boyhood to his lamented death has been traced.”

“These pages are only a catagraph after all.”

“The worthy Bishop, who lived very comfortably in his palace, and displayed a mild theoretical interest⟳ in missionary work⟳, had been rather shocked by Markham's catagraph of horrors, and seemed anxious to counteract the pessimistic note⟳ which had dominated the conclusion of the address.”

“It is interesting that oncolites and catagraphs occur⟳ abundantly in limestones of the Schwarzkalk Limestone Member of the Kuib is Formation.”

“The upper subdivision of these strata, the calcareous Dashkian Formation, contains the complete⟳ and distinct "fourth" oncolite and catagraph assemblage bearing Vesicularites bothrydioformis (Krasn.), Ambigolamellatus horridus, […]”

“In the Devils Eye Dolomite samples, the catagraph walls are usually clearly defined, only 1-10 μm thick, and are the substrate for a secondary cement that has grown centrifugally and centripetally to fill⟳ intergranular and intragranular porosity.”

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