| 单词 | and per se |
| 释义 | > as lemmasand per se 2. A symbol which by itself stands for a word. and per se = ampersand n.; the symbol &. Now historical.In quot. 1596, punning on the name Pierce or Percy. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > written character > [noun] > character representing a word per se1596 monogram1801 word-sign1842 word-symbol1852 word-type1866 letterword1927 logogram1933 1596 T. Nashe Haue with you to Saffron-Walden sig. Gv A per se, con per se, tittle, est, Amen! 1597 T. Morley Plaine & Easie Introd. Musicke 36 & per se, con per se. 1602 T. Heywood How Man may chuse Good Wife E 2v In processe of time I came to e perce e, and comperce, and tittle, then I got to a, e, i, o, u. 1709 W. King Misc. Prose & Verse 255 And per se And alone, as Poets use, The starving Dictates of my Rules pursues. 1846 B. R. Hall Something for Every Body x. 49 In contradiction to your folks of Somewhersburg, he will affirm that Smoothey taught the alphabet in twenty-six lessons, and the and-per-se in two. 1882 Longman's Mag. 1 95 ‘Ampussy and,’ that is, in full ‘and per se, and,’ is the name of the sign for the conjunction and, &, which used to be printed at the end of the alphabet. 1996 Independent 27 Jan. 16/3 Ampersand (&) derives from ‘and per se and’ so surely ‘@’ should be called ‘amperseat’. 2002 Scotsman (Nexis) 1 Oct. 3 The English name comes from the way English school children used to learn the alphabet. At the end, they would say ‘X, Y, Z, and per se and.’ The last part refers to the ‘&’ symbol, which is per se (by itself) the word ‘and’. < as lemmas |
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