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[Cf. Biography.] A biographical sketch. [Rare]

One who writes an account or history of the life of a particular person; a writer of lives, as Plutarch.

Of or pertaining to biography; containing biography. -- Bi`o*graph"ic*al*ly, adv.

To write a history of the life of. Southey.

Biographical writings in general.

One who writers his own life or biography.

Pertaining to, or containing, autobiography; as, an autobiographical sketch. "Such traits of the autobiographic sort." Carlyle. -- Au`to*bi`o*graph"ic*al*ly, adv.

One who writes his own life; an autobiographer. [R.]

A biography written by the subject of it; memoirs of one's life written by one's self.

A particular or detached incident or fact of an interesting nature; a biographical incident or fragment; a single passage of private life.

Relating to, or characteristic of, Boswell, the biographer of Dr. Johnson.

cing moving pictorial effects. Other common names for the cinematograph are animatograph, biograph, bioscope, electrograph, electroscope, kinematograph, kinetoscope, veriscope, vitagraph, vitascope, zoögyroscope, zoöpraxiscope, etc.

vince of knowledge, arranged alphabetically; as, a dictionary of medicine or of botany; a biographical dictionary.

ting or describing; also, the writing or description itself; a treatise; as, calligraphy, biography, geography.

hich relate simply the facts and events of each year, in strict chronological order; from biography, which is the record of an individual's life; and from memoir, which is history composed from personal experience, observation, and memory. Histories are as perfect as the historian is wise, and is gifted with an eye and…

nd judgment; undiscerning; indiscreet; unwise; as, an injudicious adviser. An injudicious biographer who undertook to be his editor and the protector of his memory. A. Murphy.

A history of the acts and events of a life; a biography; as, Johnson wrote the life of Milton.

A memorial of any individual; a biography; often, a biography written without special regard to method and completeness.

sp., an account of a deceased person; a notice of the death of a person, accompanied by a biographical sketch.

In so far as; in the capacity or character of; as. It is with Shelley's biographers qua biographers that we have to deal. London Spectator.