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A, the first letter of the English and most other alphabets, is frequently used as an abbreviation, (q.v.) and also in the marks of schedules or papers, as schedule A, B, C, &c. Among the Romans this letter was used in criminal trials. The judges were furnished with small tables covered with wax, and each one inscribed on it the initial letter of his vote; A, when he voted to absolve the party on trial; C, when he was for condemnation; and N L, (non liquet) when the matter did not appear clearly, and be desired a new argument. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Historians, whether political, literary, or social, have long used letters as one of their major sources of information, but it is only relatively recently that an interest in the letter as a generic form has developed. The scholarship that does exist on the letter as a form of culture has been dominated by literary analysis of the epistolary novel in the eighteenth century, but this narrow focus has occluded investigation into alternative manifestations and longer trajectories of the letter form. For example, the letter A became the idea of beginning (alpha), an opening, then exuberant new life; the letter O (omega) became the idea of lunar emptiness, void, lunar cycles, then tidal energies; and so forth until I found the matching metaphor for twenty-six letter environments. |
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