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Wiktionary

  1. adj. Relating to the boustrophedon mode of writing.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Relating to the boustrophedon made of writing.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. of or relating to writing alternate lines in opposite directions

Etymologies

  1. boustrophedon +‎ -ic (Wiktionary)

Examples

  • “P.O. Dolphin's Barn: the transliterated name and address of the addresser of the 3 letters in reversed alphabetic boustrophedonic punctated quadrilinear cryptogram (vowels suppressed) N. IGS.”

    Ulysses

  • “The psychopathological of an diabolically is guinean on the boustrophedonic of the car parking birmingham it is unrelenting of, as toppingly as the loggia senecan of the bise that incessant it.”

    Rational Review

  • “P.O. Dolphin’s Barn: the transliterated name and address of the addresser of the 3 letters in reversed alphabetic boustrophedonic punctated quadrilinear cryptogram (vowels suppressed) N. IGS.”

    Ulysses

  • “I couldn’t very well tell him the truth, that it was my own system, a boustrophedonic code based on six languages, three alphabets, a variety of symbols mathematical and chemical, and a hieroglyphic, designed to keep up with even the fastest of lecturers and leave me time to record nonverbal data, as well.”

    A Letter of Mary

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  • reesetee I love the root meaning of boustrophedonic: "turning like an ox while plowing." :-) Nov 13, 2007

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