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Definition of Cuniform
1. wedge-shaped writing characters [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cuniform
Literary usage of Cuniform
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Ancient Ideals: A Study of Intellectual and Spiritual Growth from Early by Henry Osborn Taylor (1921)
"The cuniform writing as used by Babylonians and Assyrians did not advance ...
The Persians formed the cuniform writing which they used in inscriptions from ..."
2. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1888)
"I resected the 2d cuniform [445] bone, parts of the 1st and 3d cuniform, and the
proximal end of the ..."
3. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1891)
"She adds that observation in the microscope revealed in those larynxes in which
the cuniform cartilages were wanting, parts of a cartilaginous mass or the ..."
4. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1805)
"bottom are cuniform, resembling what are called celts, having a handle on one
side, and a cavity at the top, to which covers are adapted ; — and 3. а с ..."
5. Ancient Ideals: A Study of Intellectual and Spiritual Growth from Early by Henry Osborn Taylor (1913)
"The beginning of cuniform writing in Syria must have been prior to the time of
Thothmes III, ie, prior to the sixteenth century at least. ..."
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