acrologicaladj.
/ˌakrəˈlɒdʒɪkl/, U.S. /ˌækrəˈlɑdʒɪk(ə)l/ Now rare.
Relating to or based on initial letters or sounds.
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society > communication > writing > written character > name of written character > [adjective] > method of naming
acrological1827
acrologic1830
acrophonic1844
acrophonetic1867
1827 New Monthly Mag. 21 340/1 M. Champollion..has published a refutation of Me. de Goulianoff's supposed discovery of acrological hieroglyphics.
1831 Edinb. Rev. 53 383 A task for which his [sc. M. Klaproth's] Letters on Acrological Hieroglyphs prove him to be so eminently qualified.
1884 Proc. Soc. Biblical Archaeol. 6 May 225 By an application of the acrological principle, beta became in the Russian alphabet buki, ‘beech’.
1932 J. Joyce Let. 29 Aug. (1957) 324 Short verses for children, or fables or merely acrological rhymes.
1989 Harvard Jrnl. Asiatic Stud. 49 48 The acrological composition of RLWS.
Derivatives
ˌacroˈlogically adv.
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society > communication > writing > written character > name of written character > [adverb] > method of naming
acrologically1877
1877 S. Johnson Oriental Relig.: China ii. iii. 418 Whether those mysterious Phœnician signs..are derived..from the Egyptian hieratic (or simplified picture-signs), or were invented by some one or in some way not now known, they were at least acrologically ‘baptized’.
1883 I. Taylor Alphabet I. i. 43 The symbol was used ‘acrologically’, to express simply the initial syllable of the word.
1931 J. H. Cockburn in Speculum (1933) 87 It may be that the name Brunesburh was altered to Templeborough acrologically.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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adj.1827