metagraphies

Noun

metagraphy (countable and uncountable, plural metagraphies)

1. (obsolete, rare, uncountable) Synonym of transliteration.
   • To represent letters like those of Hebrew, Arabic, Armenian, &c., by English characters, is, undoubtedly, a help to the scholar; a help with the special philologist often professes to contemn, but which the comparative philologist often misses. We will call this Metagraphy, or Transliteration.1849, A. J. Ellis, “Phonetic Spelling”, in The Prospective Review, volume 5, page 306

   Synonyms:

   transliteration

2. (countable) metagraphics; hypergraphy
   • The rich and free merging of visual arts and literature envisioned by Isou in 1949-1950 under the name of "metagraphy" appeared fertile to many more people than the one proposed earlier with Lettrist painting, left almost unnoticed.1983, Stephen C. Foster, Lettrisme: into the present, page 29
3. (uncountable) Symbolism that has no counterpart in speech.
   • Pilico and Aztec's presence in Spanish ritual, through metagraphy, novelistic speech, and heteroglossia, marks their presence in a dialogue.1987, Alfred Arteaga, Language, Discourse, Sign: Reading Dialogisms in the Texts of Shakespeare and Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz