cuneatic

[ kyoo-nee-at-ik ]

adjective

1. cuneiform; cuneate.

Word History and Origins

Origin of cuneatic¹

First recorded in 1850–55; cuneate + -ic

Example Sentences

I would quote the existence of those egg-shaped basaltic stones, embossed with various devices and covered with cuneatic inscriptions, which are brought from some of the ancient cities of Mesopotamia.

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—M. Lottin de Laval, "by a new process," has produced the most accurate copies of cuneatic inscriptions that have yet been published.

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Being a commentary on certain fundamental principles in the art of decyphering the "cuneatic" characters of the ancient Assyrians, by G.F.

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The cuneatic inscriptions may yet throw light on these Assyrian names.

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Questionless, there was many a serviceable brick wasted in Nineveh because finicky persons must needs be deleting here and there a phrase in favor of its cuneatic synonym; and it is not improbable that when the outworn sun expires in clinkers its final ray will gild such zealots tinkering with their "style."

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