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In bibliography, a collection of different works, either by one or several authors. Brande & C.

Pertaining to, or employed in, polygraphy; as, a polygraphic instrument.

The art or practice of using a polygraph.

Of or pertaining to pornography; lascivious; licentious; as, pornographic writing.

Licentious painting or literature; especially, the painting anciently employed to decorate the walls of rooms devoted to bacchanalian orgies.

An account or description of rivers; potamology.

Popularly, any modern artist thought to be a would-be restorer of early ideas or methods, as one of the German painters often called Nazarenes, or one who paints and draws with extreme minuteness of detail.

ractice of a school of modern painters who profess to be followers of the painters before Raphael. Its adherents advocate careful study from nature, delicacy and minuteness of workmanship, and an exalted and delicate conception of the subject.

Of or pertaining to the style called preraphaelitism; as, a preraphaelite figure; a preraphaelite landscape. Ruskin.

A writer of psalms; a psalmographer.

A writer of psalms, or sacred songs and hymns.

The act or practice of writing psalms, or sacred songs.

Of or pertaining to pseudepigraphy.

Inscribed with a false name. Cudworth.

The ascription of false names of authors to works.

A false writing; a spurious document; a forgery.

False writing; forgery.

A description of the phenomena of mind.

The treatment of disease by acting on the mind, as by suggestion; mind cure; psychotherapy.

Psychotherapeutics.