Anglo-Latin
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of Anglo-Latin
First recorded in 1785–95
Example Sentences
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Anglo-Latin riddlers often put their collections together in a very particular order involving elaborate acrostics.
From New York Times ● Sep. 9, 2021
To crack Old English riddles from the Exeter Book, you have to know about their Anglo-Latin predecessors.
From New York Times ● Sep. 9, 2021
The Anglo-Latin riddler Tatwine — whose day job was archbishop of Canterbury — wrote these kinds of proto-cryptic aenigmata.
From New York Times ● Sep. 9, 2021
Sir Thomas Brown, whose life Johnson wrote, was remarkably fond of Anglo-Latin diction; and to his example we are to ascribe Johnson's sometimes indulging himself in this kind of phraseology.
From Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by Osgood, Charles Grosvenor
Specimens of the Anglo-Latin Poets from the seventh to the thirteenth century, selected from inedited MSS. and arranged chronologically, with notices of the Writers and popular Notes.
From The Private Diary of Dr. John Dee And the Catalog of His Library of Manuscripts by Dee, John
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