Illiterate: alternatives and connections

A composition, usually in verse, in which the first or the last letters of the lines, or certain other letters, taken in order, form a…

Divination by means of a cock and grains of corn placed on the letters of the alphabet, the letters being put together in the order in…

The letters of a language arranged in the customary order; the series of letters or signs which form the elements of written language.

Literally, the letters of a word read backwards, but in its usual wider sense, the change or one word or phrase into another by the tr…

Certain books of the New Testament which were for a time not universally received, but which are now considered canonical. These are t…

A figure of speech by which the orator or writer suddenly breaks off from the previous method of his discourse, and addresses, in the…

Versed in books; having knowledge derived from books.

Given to reading; fond of study; better acquainted with books than with men; learned from books.

One who writes and publishes books; especially, one who gathers his materials from other books; a compiler.

Of or pertaining to Cadmus, a fabulous prince of Thebes, who was said to have introduced into Greece the sixteen simple letters of the…

A law or rule.

one of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis; "print…

Of or pertaining to the teeth or to dentistry; as, dental surgery.

Pertaining to epistles or letters; suitable to letters and correspondence; as, an epistolary style.

Pertaining to letters or epistles; in the form or style of letters; epistolary.

Pertaining to the writing of letters; used in writing letters; epistolary.

the use of misspellings to identify a colloquial or uneducated speaker

To collect (illustrations from books) for decoration of other books.