Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Descriptive of animals; pertaining to zoögraphy.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to the description of animals.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or pertaining to
zoography .
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Examples
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But her rule over both arts is only so far as they are zoographic; -- representative, that is to say, of animal life, or of such order and discipline among other elements, as may invigorate and purify it.
Aratra Pentelici, Seven Lectures on the Elements of Sculpture Given before the University of Oxford in Michaelmas Term, 1870 John Ruskin 1859
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But her rule over both arts is only so far as they are zoographic; -- representative, that is to say, of animal life, or of such order and discipline among other elements, as may invigorate and purify it.
The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing John Ruskin 1859
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