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Allograph
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A writing or signature made by one person for another.

When a principal gives his or her agent the power to pay creditors, the checks written by the agent are allographs for the principal.

An autograph is the opposite of an allo-graph.



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Well, you know, with friends like these[ETH] - but architecture is very different as an allographic art, from the art you [Durham] are familiar with, which is autographic: hands-on, I'm the artist, I do this, I sculpt this piece.
In his discussion of digital images, Mitchell (1992) argues that it might be more useful to understand these materials as allographic rather than autographic; namely, digital images, because they are digital, enable and encourage duplication.
Strong past participle Verbs belonging to the irregular paradigm could display the ending <-in> (together with its allographic variants) or a vocalic alternation as a past participle marker.
 
 
 
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