palæography
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Alternative form of paleography (study of ancient forms of writing).
British usage; Countable; Dated; Uncountable
noun
Alternative form of paleography (paleogeography).
British usage; Countable; Obsolete; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "We should like to have them collected by Dr. Young; whose acuteness and learning seem calculated to subdue the difficulties of palæography."
- "PALÆOGRAPHY. The study of antient documents, called by modern antiquaries ‘Palæography,’ is too extensive a subject to be canvassed at length in a work like the present."
- "Judging from the palæography of the inscriptions, they may have been in use from the age of Augustus to that of Marcus Aurelius, or even of Severus."
- "The study of the caligraphy, or penmanship, of ancient MSS. is replete with interest; and the art of deciphering ancient writings, or palæography, has received of late years some of the attention it deserves."
- "Palæography is the study of ancient handwriting from surviving examples."
- "1898, Joris-Karl Huysmans (translated by Clara Bell), The Cathedral, Chapter X Now they are editing and printing a musical Palæography, one of the most learned and abstruse of modern publications."
Usage
- British usage
- Countable
- Dated
- Uncountable
- Obsolete