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signary|ˈsɪgnərɪ|
[f. L. signum sign + -ary1, after syllabary.]
An arrangement of signs; the signs which constitute the syllabic or alphabetic symbols of a language.
1902Encycl. Brit. XXVII. 730/2 Probably all the signs in the hieroglyphic signary can be employed in their primary sense. 1909A. J. Evans Scripta Minoa I. p. v, I have endeavoured to supply a preliminary apparatus criticus in the form of tables and explanatory catalogues of the different signaries. 1924L. Eckenstein Tutankhaten v. 42 There were other scribes of other signaries and languages who inscribed soft clay tablets with a copper stilus. 1932Antiquity VI. 375 Nearly all the Phoenician signs were already in use in Egypt as far back as the 1st dynasty, part of the larger series of the Mediterranean signary. |