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单词 christ-cross-row
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Christ-cross-rown.

Brit. /ˈkrɪskrɒsrəʊ/, /ˈkrɪskrɔːsrəʊ/, U.S. /ˈkrɪsˌkrɔsˌroʊ/, /ˈkrɪsˌkrɑsˌroʊ/
Forms: see Christ-cross n. and row n.1
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: Christ-cross n., row n.1
Etymology: < Christ-cross n. (see discussion at that entry) + row n.1 Compare earlier cross-row n.
1. The alphabet. Cf. cross-row n. Now historical.So named from the figure of a cross prefixed to the alphabet in hornbooks and primers for teaching children to read; cf. Christ-cross n. 2a.The reference to Malachi in quot. 1762 can be explained by the fact that the Old Testament was the reading book given to the most advanced pupils.
ΘΚΠ
society > communication > writing > system of writing > alphabet > [noun] > the alphabet, allusively
cross of Christa1475
Christ's cross me speedc1475
cross-rowa1529
Christ-cross1563
Christ-cross-row1570
row1570
1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) II. 956/2 Of the same Ward he learned his Christ Crosse row.
1631 J. Mabbe tr. F. de Rojas Spanish Bawd xviii. 180 I sweare..by the crisse-crosse row, by the whole Alphabet.
1762 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy V. xlii. 140 Four years in travelling from Christ-cross-row to Malachi; A year and a half in learning to write his own name.
1814 W. Wordsworth Excursion viii. 378 Infant conning of the Christ-cross-row . View more context for this quotation
1863 C. Kingsley Water-babies ii. 52 Twelve or fourteen neat rosy chubby little children, learning their Chris-cross-row.
2012 J. Morgan Secret Life W. Shakespeare iii. 69 Though her father once began teaching her to read with Bartholomew's hornbook, she never got much further than the criss-cross row.
2. figurative.
a. A long or complete series; a catalogue. Obsolete.
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society > communication > record > list > [noun] > methodical or catalogue
schedule1516
Christ-cross-row1579
catalogue1667
matricularya1676
schemea1676
catalogue raisonné1784
cumulation1900
schematization1940
hit list1970
the world > relative properties > wholeness > the whole or all > [noun] > the whole quantity, number, or amount > the whole lot
every whita1450
every stitch?a1500
the devil and all1543
prow and poop1561
Christ-cross-row1579
every snip1598
thread and thrum1600
boodle1625
hair and hoof1705
rag-tag (also rag, tag) and bob-tail1725
tutti quanti1772
lot1791
lock, stock, and barrel1824
stock and fluke1825
the whole boiling1837
box and dice1839
the whole caboodlea1848
sub-cheese1859
the whole kit and boiling (boodle, caboodle, cargo)1859
the whole jingbang1866
the whole hypothec1871
the whole ball of wax1882
the whole (entire) shoot1884
(at) every whip-stitch1888
work1899
issue1919
guntz1958
full monty1979
1579 G. Harvey Let.-bk. (1884) 73 In the whole crisse-crosse rowe..of moral or intellectual vertues.
a1652 R. Brome New Acad. iv. ii. 82 in Five New Playes (1659) In your crisse-crosse-row of complement.
b. The rudiments or elementary part of a subject; the basics or ‘ABC’. Now rare.
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society > education > learning > study > subject or object of study > [noun] > rudiments
elements1382
ABCa1393
ground1528
introduction1532
principles1532
rudiments1534
institution1537
accidence1562
institute1578
alphabet1593
ut, re1598
gamut1600
Christ-cross-row1608
grammates1633
initiament1727
notion1839
propaedeutics1842
rudimentaries1852
1608 H. Ainsworth Counterpoyson 174 This opinion, he calleth the A, b, c, of Brownisme: but he may put it if he please in the Criss-crosse-rew of Bernardisme; he himself being the first that I ever heard to utter such a position.
1684 T. Southerne Disappointment iii. i. 31 God sa' me she is not come to the Criss-cross-row of her profession yet.
1777 W. Burke Let. Valens 77 He did not know that first elemental principle in the criss cross row of commerce, which is—the imprudence of throwing good money after bad, and expending a capital without expectation of return.
1934 D. Thomas 18 Poems ii. 12 He had by heart the Christ-cross-row of death.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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