单词 | notarikon |
释义 | notarikonn. A rabbinical and kabbalistic method of interpreting the Hebrew Scriptures by making words from letters taken from the beginning, middle, or end of the words in a sentence; (gen.) a method of forming a word in this way, or of interpreting a word as having been so constructed. Also: a word formed or interpreted in this way. ΚΠ 1693 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 17 800 They divided their Cabala into Nominal and Real. The Nominal was Triple, Gemmatria, Notaricon, and Themmura. 1754 New & Compl. Dict. Arts & Sci. I. 413/2 The second sort of cabbala, called notaricon, consists in taking every particular letter of a word for an intire diction. 1865 C. D. Ginsburg Kabbalah 50 Each letter of a word is taken as an initial or abbreviation of a word... This rule is..notaricun. 1880 W. Jones Precious Stones i. 5 (note) The Rabbinical writers describe a system of onomancy,..termed Notaricon, in conjunction with lithomancy. 1911 ‘Sepharial’ Kabala of Numbers I. iii. 31 Notaricon.—Selection was made of certain letters according to the rules of the art, these letters being taken from the beginning, middle, or end of the words in a sentence, so as to produce a single word from their combination. 1951 John o' London's Weekly 60 716/2 Hempe..is a Tudor notarikon... Hempe is formed of the initial letters of the Tudor sovereigns Henry, Edward, Mary, Philip and Elizabeth. 1989 W. Weaver tr. U. Eco Foucault's Pendulum ii. 15 The counting machines..pointed to the occult qualities of numbers, a return to the roots of the notarikon the rabbis carried with them as they fled through the plains of Europe. 1993 Gnosis Winter 89/1 The numerical and linguistic permutations used in Kabbalah—gematria, notariqon, and temura—receive virtually no attention. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1693 |
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