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cho·rog·ra·phy  (k-rgr-f)
n.
1. The technique of mapping a region or district.
2. A description or map of a region.
[Latin chrographia, from Greek khrographi : khros, place; see gh- in Indo-European roots + -graphi, -graphy.]
cho·rogra·pher n.
choro·graphic (kôr-grfk, kr-), choro·graphi·cal adj.
choro·graphi·cal·ly adv.
chorography [kɒˈrɒgrəfɪ]
n Geography
1. (Earth Sciences / Physical Geography) the technique of mapping regions
2. pl -phies (Earth Sciences / Physical Geography) a description or map of a region, as opposed to a small area
[via Latin from Greek khōrographia, from khōros place, country + -graphy]
chorographer  n
chorographic  [ˌkɒrəˈgræfɪk], chorographical adj
chorographically  adv
chorography
1. a description, map, or chart of a particular region or area.
2. the art of preparing such descriptions or maps. — chorographer, n. — chorographic, adj.
See also: Maps


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Given his attention to this model, and his overall accuracy in recognizing allusions, it seems odd that he rejects Ovid's calendrical Fasti, a poem more affirmatively nationalistic than the Metamorphoses, as model for the chorographic Poly Olbion.
Raphael Lyne. Ovid's Changing WarMs: English Metamorphoses, 1567-1632 by Leach, Eleanor Winsor / Renaissance Quarterly
Klein uses a related dyad -- the opposition between map and itinerary -- to discern the geographical imaginations of Spenser and Drayton and to anatomize the workings of English chorographic description of Ireland.
Maps and the Writing of Space in Early Modern England and Ireland. ... by Solomon, Julie Robin / Renaissance Quarterly
Indeed they made important and fundamental advances in the mathematical and chorographic branches of this emerging subject as well as its better known descriptive branch, of which the last principally distinguished these early efforts in the eyes of the twentieth-century professional.
Geography and Empire in the Late Renaissance. Botero's Assignment, ... by HEADLEY, JOHN M. / Renaissance Quarterly
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