Emily Dickinson Lexicon

OR-THO-GRA-PH'IC, or OR-THO-GRA-PH'IC-AL, a.

1. Correctly spelled; written with the proper letters.
2. Pertaining to the spelling of words; as, to make an orthographical mistake. Orthographic projection of the sphere, a delineation of the sphere upon a plane that cuts it in the middle, the eye being supposed to be placed at an infinite distance from it. Bailey. A projection in which the eye is supposed to be at an infinite distance; so called because the perpendiculars from any point of the sphere will all fall in the common intersection of the sphere with the plane of the projection. Encyc.