Grāph'ic or Grāph'ic-al, a.
a. [Fr. graphique, Lat. graphicus, Gr. γραφικός; γράφειν, to write.]
- Pertaining to the art of writing or delineating. Bacon.
- Written; inscribed.
The finger of God hath left an inscription on all his works, not graphical, or composed of letters. Browne. 3. Well delineated; clearly and vividly described. Bacon. Graphic granite. See GRANITE. — Graphic method, the method of scientific analysis or investigation, in which the relations or laws involved in tabular numbers are represented to the eye by means of curves or other figures; as the daily changes of weather by means of curves, the abscissas of which represent the hours of the day, and the ordinates the corresponding degrees of temperature.