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Definition of Alphabetic writing
1. Noun. A writing system based on alphabetic characters.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Alphabetic Writing
Literary usage of Alphabetic writing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of the Art of Writing by William Albert Mason (1920)
"CHAPTER X THE alphabetic writing OF THE PHOENICIANS IN our historical pilgrimage
to the land of the alphabet we now have reached the conclusion of the first ..."
2. The Methodist Review (1897)
"alphabetic writing. THE origin of writing, or the use of characters and signs of
various kinds to record events and to convey ideas to others, ..."
3. History of Herodotus: A New English Version by Herodotus, George Rawlinson (1880)
"Invention of the real alphabetic writing Phoenician. 28. Greek letters. 29.
Digamma originally written. 30. Sina'itic inscriptions not of the Israelites. ..."
4. Advanced Course of Composition and Rhetoric: A Series of Practial Lessons on by George Payn Quackenbos (1874)
"ALPHABETIC 'WRITING. § 11. Derivation.—The word alphabet is derived from atya,
... What Is said of the inventors of alphabetic writing ? ..."
5. Elements of Rhetoric and Literary Criticism: With Copious Practical by James Robert Boyd (1858)
"OF alphabetic writing. Q. What is the simplest and most effectual means of ...
A. It is called alphabetic writing, and, next to reason and speech, ..."
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