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ænigmata
31 May 2011, 5:16 am
| ← Older revision | Revision as of 04:16, 31 May 2011 | | Line 7: | Line 7: | | | {{infl|en}} | | {{infl|en}} | | | | | | | - | # {{archaic spelling of|{{l|en|enigmata}}|nodot=t}}; {{plural of|{{l|en|ænigma}}|nocap=t}}. | + | # {{archaic spelling of|enigmata|nodot=t}}; {{plural of|ænigma|nocap=t}} | | | #* '''1807''', <i><span style="font-variant:small-caps">The History of the Anglo-Saxons</span></i>, book XII, [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=XGAOAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA346&dq=%22these+aenigmata%22&lr=&ei=Vc7eSPmJOJbQzASsqIChAg page 346]; also later reprinted ''{{l|en|verbatim et literatim|verbatim & literatim}}'' in: | | #* '''1807''', <i><span style="font-variant:small-caps">The History of the Anglo-Saxons</span></i>, book XII, [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=XGAOAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA346&dq=%22these+aenigmata%22&lr=&ei=Vc7eSPmJOJbQzASsqIChAg page 346]; also later reprinted ''{{l|en|verbatim et literatim|verbatim & literatim}}'' in: | | | #* '''1839''', [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharon_Turner Sharon Turner], ''The History of England: From the Earliest Period to the Death of Elizabeth'', book IX, [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=WElkAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA374&dq=%22these+aenigmata%22&lr=&ei=Vc7eSPmJOJbQzASsqIChAg page 374]: | | #* '''1839''', [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharon_Turner Sharon Turner], ''The History of England: From the Earliest Period to the Death of Elizabeth'', book IX, [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=WElkAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA374&dq=%22these+aenigmata%22&lr=&ei=Vc7eSPmJOJbQzASsqIChAg page 374]: | | Line 20: | Line 20: | | | #* '''2002''', [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Ackroyd Peter Ackroyd], ''Albion: The Origins of the English Imagination'', [http://books.google.co.uk/books?lr=&ei=zM7eSM2iBZbMzQSM-OTTBw&id=PVxnAAAAMAAJ&dq=%22those+aenigmata%22&q=%22the+cleric%27s+name%22&pgis=1#search page 22] (Chatto & Windus): | | #* '''2002''', [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Ackroyd Peter Ackroyd], ''Albion: The Origins of the English Imagination'', [http://books.google.co.uk/books?lr=&ei=zM7eSM2iBZbMzQSM-OTTBw&id=PVxnAAAAMAAJ&dq=%22those+aenigmata%22&q=%22the+cleric%27s+name%22&pgis=1#search page 22] (Chatto & Windus): | | | #*: …the cleric's name, Cynewulf, becomes in sequence torch, bow, necessity, horse, happiness, man, sea, wealth. His signature was a cryptogram, one of those '''ænigmata''' so congenial to the Anglo-Saxon imagination. The works where the runes are inserted are all of a homiletic nature… | | #*: …the cleric's name, Cynewulf, becomes in sequence torch, bow, necessity, horse, happiness, man, sea, wealth. His signature was a cryptogram, one of those '''ænigmata''' so congenial to the Anglo-Saxon imagination. The works where the runes are inserted are all of a homiletic nature… | | | + | | | | + | ====Synonyms==== | | | + | * [[ænigmas]] | | | | | | | | ====Derived terms==== | | ====Derived terms==== | |
