abecedarium

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The Arabs, I have said, took the flag or water leaf form and departed very far from the Egyptian original (we know from Plutarch that the hieroglyphic abecedarium began with "a"), which was chosen by other imitators, namely the bull's head, and which in the cursive form, especially the

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  1. An a-b-c book. It appears therefore that all the Italic alphabets were developed on Italian soil out of a single primitive type, of which the abecedaria exhibit a comparatively late survival. Isaac Taylor, The Alphabet, II. 131.
  2. Logical abecedarium a table of all possible combinations of any finite number of logical terms. Jevons.

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  • The Arabs, I have said, took the flag or water leaf form and departed very far from the Egyptian original (we know from Plutarch that the hieroglyphic abecedarium began with "a"), which was chosen by other imitators, namely the bull's head, and which in the cursive form, especially the —  Arabian nights. English
  • It relies for the first letter upon the authority of Plutarch, who asserts that the Egyptian abecedarium numbered the square of five —  The Land of Midian — Volume 1
 

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  1. Neut. of Late Latin abecedarius: see abecedarian.

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