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Webster 1913 Edition
Palaeotype
Pa′læ-o-type
,Noun.
[
Palæo-
+ -type
.] (Phon.)
A system of representing all spoken sounds by means of the printing types in common use.
Ellis.
– Paˊlæ-o-typ′ic-al
(#)
, Adj.
Paˊlæ-o-typ′ic-al-ly
, adv.
Definition 2024
palaeotype
palaeotype
English
Alternative forms
Noun
palaeotype (plural palaeotypes)
- A system of representing all spoken sounds by means of the printing types in common use.
- Alexander Ellis
- Of course for publication in a newspaper, my palaeotype would not answer, but my glossotype would enable the author to give his Pennsylvania German in an English form and much more intelligibly.
- Alexander Ellis
- An printed manuscript that is written using palaeotype.
- The library of the British Museum is […] rich in manuscripts, rich in palaeotypes, rich in the science, history, and literature of every age and nation.
- 2000, Manuscripta Orientalia: International Journal for Oriental Manuscript Research, Volumes 6-7, page 22:
- The identification of this edition as an incunabulum, and not an early palaeotype, evokes doubts in a number of scholars (for example, it was not included in the Census).
Related terms
- palaeotypical
- palaeotypically