Kyriological

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Of or related to kyriology; serving to denote objects by conventional signs or alphabetical characters. not-comparable

    "The original Greek alphabet of sixteen letters was called kyriological, because it represented the pure elementary sounds."

Example

More examples

"The original Greek alphabet of sixteen letters was called kyriological, because it represented the pure elementary sounds."

Etymology

From kyriology + -ical.

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