单词 | abecedarium |
释义 | abecedariumn. 1. a. The alphabet; esp. (in early use) the Roman alphabet as opposed to the Greek; (in later use) an alphabet belonging to an ancient writing system, or an inscription of this; = abecedary n.1 2.In quot. OE with reference to alphabetic series of letters in lunar tables. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > system of writing > alphabet > [noun] staff-rewOE abecedariumOE ABCc1325 alphabet?a1475 character1569 abecedary1596 one's P's and Q's1763 characteristic1769 staverow1866 OE Byrhtferð Enchiridion (Ashm.) (1995) iii. iii. 170 We wyllað todælan þa abecedaria on twa todælednyssa, swa ealde uðwitan us gewissedon. 1706 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. (1885) I. 303 Tho. Clerke of Queen's Schoole-Master of Widehope or Withope near Cockermouth in Cumberland. He taught Dr Hudson his Abcedarium. 1766 C. O'Conor Diss. Hist. Ireland (new ed.) iii. 37 These Letters are arranged in a different Order from the Alphabet of the Greeks, or Abecedarium of the Romans. 1845 G. Petrie Eccl. Archit. Ireland 132 This inscription..was an abecedarium... It was the practice of the first teachers of Christianity in Ireland to furnish their disciples with the abecedarium, or Roman alphabet. 1893 E. M. Thompson Handbk. Greek & Lat. Palæogr. i. 7 In a Greek abecedarium scratched upon a small vase discovered at Formello,..this letter is seen to occupy the eighteenth place. 1901 Proc. Soc. Antiq. 18 400 A considerable resemblance between the present alphabet and the remarkable abecedaria on what are known as the Chigi and Galassi vases. 1927 Classical Philol. 22 372 The early abecedaria (Marsiliana, Formello, Caere) are Etruscan rather than Greek. 1935 Amer. Jrnl. Philol. 56 148 The other abecedarium also deserves attention. Above each letter the Latin name is spelled out in Greek letters. 2000 A. Gaur Literacy & Politics of Writing (2003) v. 77 The Semitic-based names of the Greek letters were replaced in favour of the familiar abecedarium. b. In the work of British economist and logician W. S. Jevons: the series of possible combinations of letters in a system for solving logical problems; (also) the mechanical device invented by Jevons for generating and displaying these combinations. Also more fully logical abecedarium. ΚΠ 1870 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 160 504 I propose to call any such complete series of combinations a Logical Abecedarium, but the number of combinations increases so rapidly with the number of separate terms that I have not found it convenient to go beyond the sixty-four combinations of the six terms A, B, C, D, E, F and their negatives. 1874 Athenæum 4 Apr. 453/2 Jevons..has constructed a logical machine, or Abecedarium, which performs with infallible accuracy, by means of symbolical terms, all the processes of analytical reasoning. 1886 H. A. Jevons Lett. & Jrnl. W. S. Jevons x. 290 The frontispiece was an engraving of his logical machine, which, as well as his logical abecedarium, he fully described in the course of the work. 1952 Jrnl. Symbolic Logic 17 78 The abecedarium will display those and only those atoms which are part of all the schemata (i.e., consistent with all the premises). 2004 D. J. Bennett Logic made Easy 229 The abecedarium was a precursor of the truth table. 2. An alphabetical wordbook or wordlist, usually elementary; esp. a primer for teaching the basics of reading and spelling. Cf. abecedary n.1 1. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > linguistic unit > lexicography > [noun] > vocabulary or collection of words vocabulist?1523 vocabular1530 vocabuler1530 vocabulary1532 nomenclator1585 wordbook1598 verbal1599 lexicon1647 nomenclature1659 vocabula1698 abecedarium1796 vocab1836 vocabulary book1854 Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 12 A-pece, alphabetum, abecedarium. 1671 R. Hunt (title) Abecedarium Scolasticum. Or the Grammar-Scholars Abecedary.] 1796 W. Marsden Catal. Dicts. 80 Abecedarium, or Primer in the Finnic language. Stockholm, 1767. 1832 Athenæum 9 June 401/1 A student can find no more beautiful abecedarium of the science [than the Glossary of Architecture]. 1898 Dial 1 Mar. 140/1 Every copy [of the New England Primer] contained an Abecedarium, a Syllabarium, and an illustrated Alphabet. 1967 Mod. Lang. Rev. 62 686 This book consists of three works bound together with a sixteenth-century East-European binding. They are (i) an undated Russian printed primer (ii) a MS Russian abecedarium with prayers (iii) an undated Polish printed primer. 1990 Slavic Rev. 49 77 Instruction regularly began with a primer, hornbook, or abecedarium from which one learned to recognize the alphabet, sounds, and syllables and to read some specific pieces of prose. 2007 L. B. Gambrell et al. Best Pract. in Literacy Instr. 288 They select 1 of 26 possible topics and use the Internet to create an illustrated page for a class Abcedarium. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.OE |
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