单词 | alphabetist |
释义 | alphabetistn. A person who studies alphabets or alphabetic characters; one who analyses words at an alphabetical level. Also: a deviser of an alphabet or alphabetic writing system. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > study or science of written symbols > [noun] > one who studies alphabets alphabetist1820 alphabetarian1864 1820 J. B. Gilchrist Hindee-Roman Orthoepigraphical Ultimatum (ed. 2) Introd. p. cxli What will be equally strange, to a thoughtless alphabetist, is the fact that..the oriental systems admit of no capitals. 1860 S. S. Haldeman Analyt. Orthogr. ii. 22 Some alphabetists take credit to themselves. 1931 T'oung Pao 28 284 In our day we are able to think of a consonant in the abstract, but the alphabetist was unable to detach the consonant from the syllable and its tone. 2006 D. D. Silverman Crit. Introd. Phonol. vii. 207 The alphabetists of yesterday have become the phonemists of today. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1820 |
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