Testamentary: 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.

The spiritual meaning or application; esp. the application of the types and allegories of the Old Testament to subjects of the New.

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 person or thing represented or foreshadowed by an earlier type or symbol; especially a figure or event in the New Testament having a…

An African sheeplike quadruped (the Ammotragus tragelaphus) having a long mane on the breast and fore legs. It is, perhaps, the chamoi…

The contraction of a word by the omission of a letter or letters, which omission is marked by the character ['] placed where the lette…

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

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

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

Formed by the aid of the teeth; -- said of certain articulations and the letters representing them; as, d t are dental letters.

two successive letters (especially two letters used to represent a single sound: ‘sh’ in ‘shoe’)

two successive letters (especially two letters used to represent a single sound: ‘sh’ in ‘shoe’)

A translation of the Scriptures into the English language for the use of English-speaking Roman Catholics; -- done from the Latin Vulg…

One of the letters in the New Testament which were addressed to their Christian brethren by Apostles.

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