— monographer /meuh nog"reuh feuhr/ , monographist , n. — monographic /mon'euh graf"ik/ , monographical , adj. — monographically , adv.
/mon"euh graf', -grahf'/ , n.
1. a treatise on a particular subject, as a biographical study or study of the works of one artist.
2. a highly detailed and thoroughly documented study or paper written about a limited area of a subject or field of inquiry: scholarly monographs on medieval pigments.
3. an account of a single thing or class of things, as of a species of organism.
v.t.
4. to write a monograph about.
[ 1815-25; MONO- + -GRAPH ]