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boustrophedonally

boustrophedonally adverb: synonym of boustrophedonically (“as a boustrophedon or in a boustrophedonic manner”).

Adverb

boustrophedonally (not comparable)

  1. (uncommon) Synonym of boustrophedonically (“as a boustrophedon or in a boustrophedonic manner”).
    • The words of those verses which are regarded as containing a peculiar recondite meaning are ranged in squares in such a manner as to be read either vertically or boustrophedonally, beginning at the right or left hand.1877, William Smith, Henry Wace, editors, A Dictionary of Christian Biography, Literature, Sects and Doctrines: Being a Continuation of ‘The Dictionary of the Bible’, volume I, Boston, Mass.: Little...
    • This method causes the words to be arranged in a sort of diagram something like a cryptographical scale, in which the words are to read from right to left, from left to right, horizontally, perpendicularly, angularly, boustrophedonally, circumlocutorally, till some hidden and estoric sense is...1879, complied and collected by Philip Abraham, הנסתרת והנגלתר: Curiosities of Judaism. Facts, Opinions, Anecdotes, and Remarks Relative to the Hebrew Nation, London: […] the Author, page 266

Examples of boustrophedonally in a sentence

  • The Chinese read from top to bottom, and early Greek inscriptions were read boustrophedonally—that is, alternately from left to right and right to left, as furrows are made in plowing a field.1910 October 29, The Knoxville Sentinel, volume XXIV, number 257, Knoxvile, Tenn.:
  • […]read boustrophedonally as follows:[…]1911, C. H. Emerson, Psychocraft: Being the Art of Following the Lead of Instinct Which Uses Human Organic Mechanisms with Giant Strength...
  • The arrangement indicates that the series of six pictures is to be read boustrophedonally, beginning at the lower right:[…]2005, Karl Anton Nowotny, translated by George A. Everett and Edward B. Sisson, Tlacuilolli: Style and Contents of the Mexican Pictorial...

Synonyms of boustrophedonally

Origin of boustrophedonally

From boustrophedon + -ally, from Ancient Greek βουστροφηδόν (boustrophēdón).

Words formed from boustrophedonally

  • boustrophedonal

Questions about boustrophedonally

What does boustrophedonally mean?
Boustrophedonally means synonym of boustrophedonically (“as a boustrophedon or in a boustrophedonic manner”).
How do you use boustrophedonally in a sentence?
The Chinese read from top to bottom, and early Greek inscriptions were read boustrophedonally—that is, alternately from left to right and right to left, as furrows are made in plowing a field.
What part of speech is boustrophedonally?
Boustrophedonally is an adverb.

Words near boustrophedonally in the dictionary

  1. Boustead
  2. Boustead Hill
  3. boustrophedic
  4. boustrophedically
  5. boustrophedon
  6. boustrophedonally
  7. boustrophedonic
  8. boustrophedonical
  9. boustrophedonically
  10. boustrophedons
  11. boustrophic

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