signaryn.
/ˈsɪɡnəri/, U.S. /ˈsɪɡnəri/ An arrangement of signs; the signs which constitute the syllabic or alphabetic symbols of a language.
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signary1899
1899 Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. 29 205 The pre-existing signaries in the various lands and tribes did not easily fall into line.
1909 A. J. Evans Scripta Minoa I. p. v I have endeavoured to supply a preliminary apparatus criticus in the form of tables and explanatory catalogues of the different signaries.
1932 Antiquity 6 375 Nearly all the Phoenician signs were already in use in Egypt as far back as the 1st dynasty, part of the larger series of the Mediterranean signary.
1995 J. Drucker Alphabet. Labyrinth (1999) ii. 35 Godfrey Driver, for instance, determined that the alphabetic character of Petrie's so-called signary was well established in this early period in the Sinai.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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