Definition of Signary

1. Noun. syllabary ¹

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Definition of Signary

1. a system of signals [n SIGNARIES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Signary

signallers
signalling
signalling event
signally
signalman
signalmen
signalment
signalments
signalosome
signalosomes
signals
signals intelligence
signalwoman
signalwomen
signaries
signary (current term)
signate
signation
signations
signator
signatories
signatory
signatour
signature
signature recognition
signature sequence
signature tune
signature tunes
signatures
signaturist

Literary usage of Signary

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Inscriptions of Kourion by Terence Bruce Mitford (1971)
"THE signary OF CLASSICAL PAPHOS I here conflate three tables. Bull. Inst. Class. ... of the Paphian χώρα) and | XXV (The late Paphian signary of the age of ..."

2. The Inscriptions of Kourion by Terence Bruce Mitford (1971)
"THE signary OF CLASSICAL PAPHOS I here conflate three tables. Bull. Inst. Class. Stud London Suppl. ... XXV (The late Paphian signary of the age of ..."

3. A History of the Art of Writing by William Albert Mason (1920)
"Pétrie writes: "A great signary (not hieroglyphic, but geometric, in appearance, if not in origin) was in use all over the Mediterranean 5000 BC It is ..."

4. A History of the Art of Writing by William Albert Mason (1920)
"Petrie writes: "A great signary (not hieroglyphic, but geometric, in appearance, if not in origin) was in use all over the Mediterranean 5000 BC It is ..."

5. The Story of the Alphabet by Edward Clodd (1900)
"This linear signary was developed variously, but retained much in common in different countries. It was first systematised by the numerical values assigned ..."

6. The Story of the Alphabet by Edward Clodd (1900)
"But the fuller form of the signary survived in Karia with thirty-six signs, ... This stamps the Egyptian signary of the twelfth and eighteenth dynasties as ..."

7. The Story of the Alphabet by Edward Clodd (1915)
"But the fuller form of the signary survived in Karia with thirty-six signs, ... This stamps the Egyptian signary of the twelfth and eighteenth dynasties as ..."

8. Best Thoughts of Best Thinkers: Amplified, Classified, Exemplified and by Hialmer Day Gould, Edward Louis Hessenmueller (1904)
"Professor Petrie assumes that we are now in the presence of a widespread and long lasting system of signs or signary which was common to the Mediterranean ..."

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