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单词 letter by letter
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letter by letter
d. letter by letter: so as to take each letter in turn; (also) †using the exact letters (obsolete). Also (usually hyphenated) as adj.
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1588 W. Kempe Educ. Children sig. F2v A sillable of eight letters, being too hard for a childe to learne all at once, he may learne letter by letter.
a1622 H. Ainsworth Annot. Five Bks. Moses, Bk. Psalmes & Song of Songs (1627) iv. v. 32/1 He (the Priest) brought a roll of parchment vellan..and wrote thereon..all the words wherewith he adjured her, letter by letter, word by word.
1696 J. Lead Fountain of Gardens 48 The Interpreter I my self must be, to tell you Letter by Letter; for you know not yet what number it is that makes up your New Name.
1730 R. Hayes Negociator's Mag. (rev. ed.) i. 28 Although some Words may happen to be false Spelt: They copy it out Letter by Letter.
1767 B. Thornton tr. Plautus Treasure iv. ii, in B. Thornton et al. tr. Plautus Comedies II. 64 I'll recollect it Letter by letter.—It begins with C.
1800 W. Dunlap tr. A. von Kotzebue False Shame iv. 44 Are your senses so bound up in darkness that I must spell it to you letter by letter?
1836 R. Southey Cowper's Wks. III. 226 ‘In a firm and delicate hand’..(no doubt the same letter-by-letter writing that has before been noticed).
1951 Trans. Philol. Soc. 1950 181 Since there is a letter-by-letter transliteration in general use by comparatists, this has been utilized to represent the Armenian spelling.
1967 N. S. M. Cox & M. W. Grose Organization Bibliogr. Rec. by Computer ii. 13 The ability to sort word-by-word or letter-by-letter.
2006 J. Shannon Dark Streets iii. 38 He pointed to it now, running his finger from the G to the D as if she needed help reading it letter by letter.
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