1843 Tait's Mag. X. 238A vow..against sparing one drop of blood which the tribunals had once devoted to the altars of the *Papyrocracy.
1906 J. H. Moulton Gram. N.T. Greek I. 159In the less educated papyrographers we find blunders of this kind.
c1904 Encycl. Dict. Suppl. ,Papyrological.
1925 H. S. Jones in Liddell & Scott's Greek-Eng. Lexicon (1940) I.Pref. p. viii,Mr. H. Idris Bell..has supplied valuable notes on recent papyrological publications.
1939 A. Toynbee Study ofHist. VI. 74The benefit of half a century of papyrological enterprise and ingenuity.
1922 Glasgow Herald 14 Apr. 5/2 A most helpful Guide prepared..by the well-known papyrologist Mr. H. I. Bell.
1968 Sunday Times 25 Aug. 3/5 He spent his winters as a young papyrologist excavating the rubbish-mounds of Græco-Roman cities in Egypt for the significant ‘waste⁓paper’ of a forgotten civilization.
1977 Times 28 Oct. 14/3 A famous lost play of antiquity has been discovered..among the Oxyrhyncus papyri,..by Professor Eric Turner, the great papyrologist.
1898 Athenæum 24 Dec. 887/1 In the department of *papyrology; if we may use such a word.
1900 Ibid. 3 Feb. 140/3Papyrology is the Greek study which is devouring all the rest.
1790 Beattie MoralSci. I. i. ii. §320Of this *papyrophobia..I was cured long ago.
1656 Blount Glossogr.,*Papyropolist..a Seller of Paper.
1897 Wall Dict. Photogr. (ed. 7) 435Papyrotype, Papyrography, or *Papyrotint, modifications of photo-lithography, in which paper is used as material on which the original transfer is made.
1894 S. R. Bottone Electr. Instr. Making (ed. 6) 26Gun⁓paper, or *papyroxyline, is paper which has been immersed for a few seconds in a mixture of nitric and sulphuric acids, and then washed in an abundance of water.
Ibid. 27If papyroxyline is used, it should be made from stout millboard.
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Etymology: Greek, from papyros papyrus
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2. : paper
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