• (n.) An example of tachygraphy; esp., an ancient Greek or Roman tachygraphic manuscript.
Tach'y·graph noun An example of tachygraphy; esp., an ancient Greek or Roman tachygraphic manuscript. 
tachygraph A tachygraphic manuscript.tachygraphy, tachygraph, tachygraphic, tachygraphical 1. The name of ancient Greek and Roman shorthand systems; literally, `fast or speed writing”. 2. Cursive writing. 3. The art or practice of quick writing; variously applied to shorthand, and (in paleography) to cursive as distinguished from angular letters, to the Egyptian hieratic, and to the...