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発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˌmɛɡəˈlɒɡrəfi/, /ˌmɛɡlˈɒɡrəfi/
• (General American) IPA: /ˌmɛɡəˈlɑɡrəfi/
• 韻: -ɒɡɹəfi
• ハイフネーション: me‧ga‧lo‧gra‧phy

名詞

megalography (uncountable)

1. (art) The depiction of great or grand things, such as heroes and gods; painting on a large scale

   Antonym: rhopography

   The room was decorated with magnificent megalography, overwhelming the viewer upon entrance.

   • 1889, Octave Uzanne, The Mirror of the World‎, King's Street, London: John C. Nimmo, page 21:

     What were, in short, these astonishing decorators of all sorts, lavishing frescoes, ceilings, and that historical megalography which surprises us even now by its boldness and breadth?

   • 1896, Gaston Boissier, translated by D. Havelock Fisher, Rome and Pompeii: Archaeological Rambles‎, New York City: G. P. Putnam's Sons, page 425:

     The Pompeian houses are usually small; the space which the architect gave over to the painter was not, as a rule, of great extent, and was little suited for what the Greeks styled "megalography."

2. (medicine) macrography; form of dysgraphia defined by unusually large handwriting

関連する語

• megalograph
• megalographic

参照

• “megalography”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
• 1981, William Alexander Newman Dorland, Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary‎, Philadelphia: Saunders, →ISBN, page 976: