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Definition of Signary
1. a system of signals [n SIGNARIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Signary
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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