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Definition of Cuneatic
1. a. Cuneiform.
Definition of Cuneatic
1. Adjective. cuneiform ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cuneatic
1. cuneate [adj] - See also: cuneate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cuneatic
Literary usage of Cuneatic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Lost Solar System of the Ancients Discovered by John Wilson (1856)
"Its external form and appearance resembling the Susian and Babylonian mounds,
and the circumstance of cuneatic inscriptions being found in its vicinity, ..."
2. On the First and Second Kinds of Persepolitan Writing by Edward Hincks (1846)
"... on the Mode of expressing Numerals in cuneatic Characters. W HEN I laid before
the Academy, at its last sitting, my alphabet of the third ..."
3. The Intellectual Observer (1862)
"Even now, the Assyrian and Babylonian forms of the cuneatic systems are but very
imperfectly known, although the Persian may be said to be mastered. ..."
4. The Origin and Progress of the Art of Writing: A Connected Narrative of the by Henry Noel Humphreys (1855)
"But all these are merely specimens of a cursive cuneatic, while it is certain
that a cursive alphabet character, resembling the Phoenician and Hebrew, ..."
5. Harper's Dictionary of Classical Literature and Antiquities by Harry Thurston Peck (1897)
"It is only in the present century that scholars have been able to decipher the
cuneatic characters, and to interpret satisfactorily the inscriptions that ..."
6. Report of the Annual Meeting (1858)
"him that the inventors of cuneatic writing were acquainted with hieroglyphic
writing, was that ideographic characters were mixed ..."
7. ... Indigenous Races of the Earth: Or, New Chapters of Ethnological Inquiry by Josiah Clark Nott, George Robins Gliddon, Louis-Ferdinand-Alfred Maury, James Aitken Meigs (1868)
"cuneatic students (as was in part the case 15 years ago with Egyptian hieroglyphics,
... When cuneatic students in England arc enabled, through arrow-headed ..."
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