apographic

English

Adjective

apographic (not comparable)

1. Of or relating to the apograph of a manuscript.
   • 2001, Douglas Wilson, Mother Kirk: Essays and Forays in Practical Ecclesiology, page 38:

     At the same time, we must recognize that any translation, however good, cannot be accorded the status of the autographic or apographic texts.

   • 2014, Douglas Wilson, Westminster Systematics, page 10:

     According to Westminster, the originals that were the final arbiter were the apographic texts, not the original autographs that nobody has.

   • 2016, Robin A Leaver, The Routledge Research Companion to Johann Sebastian Bach:

     At first glance, the editions of Bach's works from his lifetime would seem to be as immutable as fair apographic copies of other works of the composer.

   • 2020, Ariadne Nunes, Joana Moura, Marta Pacheco Pinto, Genetic Translation Studies:

     Consequently, a common trace in old and modern document witnesses, as well as in autographic and apographic materials, is their elliptical nature for even if a large dossier génétique has been kept, it only represents a rather small part of the whole making process leading from a mental project to a self-contained work.

2. (geology) Fine-grained.
   • 1958, Akademii͡a nauk SSSR, Proceedings: Geological sciences sections - Volumes 121-123:

     Apographic structures include a number of varieties: feathery or dendritic, augen, gneissose, ichthyoglyptic, etc.

   • 1966, Alekseĭ Aleksandrovich Beus, Lincoln Ridler Page, Geochemistry of Beryllium, page 230:

     […] the formation of the "stuffed ” variety is spatially and genetically closely related to the incomplete albitization of the graphic and apographic pegmatite.