Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A system of language-signs adapted to universal use; a kind of writing that may be understood and used by all nations.
Wiktionary
- n. linguistics A writing system where concepts are written instead of words. The system is not phonetic and uses ideograms, such as mathematical symbols. It is intended to be universally understood.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A system of universal writing, or a manner of writing that may be understood and used by all nations.
WordNet 3.0
- n. an artificial international language using characters (as mathematical symbols) instead of words to express ideas
Etymologies
- From Greek. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Such a system was composed by the Bishop Wilkins already referred to; Bacon had busied himself with a 'pasigraphy' long before; Leibnitz, Dalgaru,”
The Continental Monthly, Vol 3 No 3, March 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
“It is also in contemplation to teach a blind pupil _pasigraphy_, or universal language, invented by DEMAIMIEUX.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘pasigraphy’.
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Additional 250 Spelling Words
Words for the diehard intermediate and advanced spellers
facetiae, sagittary, anthophilous, hydromancy, pandect, carillonneur, tabbouleh, litterateur, windgall, pinguid, tressure, moderne and 238 more...
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Word Words
This used to be my nym list, but there are so many words about words, I think it's time to expand and open.
acronym, antonym, aptronym, autoantonym, autonym, bacronym, capitonym, contranym, contronym, eponym, exonym, heteronym and 120 more...
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phrontistery - p
from phrontistery.info
pabouche, pabulous, pabulum, pacable, pace, pachydermia, pachyglossal, pachymeter, pachynsis, paciferous, pacificate, pactolian and 1766 more...
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Conlangs and Fantasy Languages
Names of constructed languages (excluding Tolkien's, which get a list of their own) and languages presented only in works of fiction. I'm going to be flexible about what gets listed and include bot...
esperanto, volapük, idiom neutral, latino sine flexione, ido, occidental, interlingue, interlingua, novial, glosa, adjuvilo, afrihili and 223 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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wordplay words
anagram, alternade, punning, equivoque, paronomasia, disport, joual, marrowsky, glossopoeist, stain gloss, vrittigloss, glosszend and 5 more...
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maygra
apropos, advantageous, perception, discombobulated, adumbrate, apogee, perihelion, mortmain, solitudinous, mediastinus, asumbrative, traveler and 498 more...
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Words. Just words.
Our chief weapons are words, that's all. Just words. Only words, not justly words, that is.
That is to say that there are only words in this list, not words that are just, although s...profligacy, monty, the arc of history, luddite, peremptory, brusque, languid, callipygian, perniciously, insidiousness, camelot, perforce and 189 more...
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looked up
Words I've come across while reading and looked up in the dictionary.
deesis, pendentive, revetment, aedicule, stemma, patera, ephod, entrepot, corbel, exedra, volute, archivolt and 1408 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, P
pellucid, pertain, pampas, prate, pinecone, philistine, pantocrator, papaverine, postmeridian, potlatch, pharology, pinniped and 622 more...
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Palabrarium
The delicious wonderful words that I love terribly dearly and without which, the world would be a less inventive and worthwhile place. Also, ostensibly, the reason 1984 and esperanto secretly suck.
panoply, footpad, piccalilli, snickersnee, marl, hispid, greengage, slumgullion, golliwog, mumbletypeg, circumlocution, quiescent and 366 more...
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tyson's Words
perrormance, absquatulate, vaticinate, surquedry, contumelious, chiliastic, frumentarious, anserine, anfractuous, micturate, bolection, cromulent and 20 more...
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the mysterious flame of queen loana
what happens when a book has been translated from the italian and cognates have been used for the latinate words.
nadar, settle, pylorus, extrasystole, filobus, cenotaph, cuirassier, dragoon, zouave, lalique, capon, colloquy and 40 more...
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reid_burkland's Words
zugzwang, mulct, sparble, absquatulate, amanuensis, antejentacular, pasigraphy, madify, banausic, bibulous, borborygmous, caduceus and 7 more...
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Can We Get Along?
Words to do with concepts of human interaction and the way individuals are positioned or viewed within society.
cohousing, misanthropy, multiculturalism, dwb, anarchy, quietist, piurci, confelicity, community, casual carpool, eupsychia, reconciliation and 44 more...
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Miscellany, pt. p
phoenicopter, perspiry, predecease, power animal, paperblanks, pulviscle, pixilated, pudú, pinkaninny, pinkany, pequi, pasigraphy and 64 more...
Tweets
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vanishedone If Wikipedia is to be believed, the aim of this 'is to be intelligible to persons of all languages', so it isn't really at home on the Cryptolects list. I'm going to make some other lists involving conlangs and writing systems, though, so I'm still glad to have had it brought to my attention. Nov 10, 2008