Alphabetical vs Kyriological - What's the difference?
alphabetical | kyriological |
Pertaining to, furnished with, or expressed by letters of the alphabet.
* 1986 , Arthur Hilary Armstrong, A. A. Armstrong, Classical Mediterranean Spirituality: Egyptian, Greek, Roman ?, page 486
According to the sequence of the letters of the alphabet.
(obsolete) literal
* Milton
Serving to denote objects by conventional signs or alphabetical characters.
As adjectives the difference between alphabetical and kyriological
is that alphabetical is pertaining to, furnished with, or expressed by letters of the alphabet while kyriological is serving to denote objects by conventional signs or alphabetical characters.alphabetical
English
Adjective
(-)- Paul, who talks about what the magical papyri do, has in his first letter to the Corinthians described basic aspects of alphabetical language.
- All names were placed into an alphabetical list.
- Alphabetical servility.
Derived terms
* alphabetical order * alphabeticallykyriological
English
Alternative forms
* curiologic * kuriologic * kyriologicAdjective
(-)- The original Greek alphabet of sixteen letters was called kyriological , because it represented the pure elementary sounds.