English Dictionary: diacritical | by the DICT Development Group |
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Diacritic \Di`a*crit"ic\, Diacritical \Di`a*crit"ic*al\, a. [Gr. [?], fr. [?] to separate, distinguish; dia` through + [?] to separate. See {Critic}.] That separates or distinguishes; -- applied to points or marks used to distinguish letters of similar form, or different sounds of the same letter, as, [be], [acr], [84], [omac], [ocr], etc. [bd]Diacritical points.[b8] --Sir W. Jones. A glance at this typography will reveal great difficulties, which diacritical marks necessarily throw in the way of both printer and writer. --A. J. Ellis. |