acrography

Noun

acrography (uncountable)

1. A method of relief etching on wood, metal, or stone by means of a coating of compressed chalk, invented by Louis Schonberg in 1841.
   • Meanwhile, we may observe that the most extraordinary example of acrography is a medallion of Addinos, engraved in a similar style to that of Collas's priest, and not distinguishable from its productions except by the liars being imperfect.1841, The New World - Volume 2, page 172
   • In wood engraving every line is forced along its direction, and the very awkwardness of the operation ultimately gives an authority to the printed line. In acrography this was not so.1969, Journal of the Printing Historical Society - Issues 5-6, page 62
2. An organizing principle for written lists, based on initial glyphs.
   • A characteristic of the Ebla scientific lists, to which Chapter VIII will be dedicated, is the redaction according to the principle of acrography, which orders the entries on the basis of the initial formative elements, a principle adopted many centuries later in Mesopotamia.1981, Giovanni Pettinato, The archives of Ebla: an empire inscribed in clay, page 46
   • The sign lists from Fara (WVDOG 43 7 and 69) show an structure unrelated both to VE and to the OB lists, their acrography is less strict.1986, Miguel Civil, Oliver Robert Gurney, Douglas A. Kennedy, The Sag-tablet, Lexical Texts in the Ashmolean Museum, Middle Babylonian Grammatical Texts, Miscellaneous Texts, →ISBN, page 5
3. Decorative plasterwork of various styles used in Middle Eastern architecture.
   • One of the architectural arts is acrography or plaster work which has had its own form and style in each historical period.2011 November, N Haeri, A Sefat, SM Shojaei, “Iranian Architecture, Is the Reflection of Mysterious Patterns & Meaning”, in International Journal of Academic Research, volume 3, number 6
   • Of course we observe the geometrical classifications from the earlier periods in some arts such as book decoration and acrography and brickworks but its prevalence in wooden making loop at Safavid period in building gigantic gates and Orosis (wooden muntin) of 3 doors and follogins 5 doors will...2014, H Fathi, EZ Farsani, “Comparative Study of Elements and Properties in Orsies of Zand and Qajar Periods”, in Trends in Life Sciences, volume 2, number 3, page 307