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abecedary
[ ey-bee-see-duh-ree ]
adjective
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of abecedary1
Example Sentences
But I’ll tell you this, Laura Kolbe’s prose poem “Buried Abecedary for Intensive Care†is a poem of these times.
Raffles’s previous studies of the natural world include “In Amazonia,†a history of the rainforest, and “Insectopedia,†a puckish abecedary of the insect world.
In this abecedary of politically minded essays, a critic and poet plumbs the meanings of newly urgent words: agitate, decency, justice.
And this is pretended from the sympathy of two needles touched with the same loadstone, and placed in the centre of two abecedary circles, or rings with letters described round about them, one friend keeping one, and another the other, and agreeing upon the hour wherein they will communicate.
Associated words: abecedary, alphabetic, alphabetism, alphabetize, primer, abecedarian.
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