Meaning of boustrophedonally | Babel Free

Definitions

Synonym of boustrophedonically (“as a boustrophedon or in a boustrophedonic manner”).

not-comparable, uncommon

Examples

“The words of those verses which are regarded as containing a peculiar recondite meaning are ranged in squares in such a manner as to be read either vertically or boustrophedonally, beginning at the right or left hand.”

“This method causes the words to be arranged in a sort of diagram something like a cryptographical scale, in which the words are to read from right to left, from left to right, horizontally, perpendicularly, angularly, boustrophedonally, circumlocutorally, till some hidden and estoric sense is squeezed out to form the essence of the Kabbalah.”

“The Chinese read from top to bottom, and early Greek inscriptions were read boustrophedonally—that is, alternately from left to right and right to left, as furrows are made in plowing a field.”

“[…]read boustrophedonally as follows:[…]”

“The Latin text of the inscription in characters still closely resembling the Greek ones and arranged boustrophedonally (from top to buttom^([sic]) and back from bottom to top) should not be dated later than the middle of the V century B. C. (though according to some it could be dated as far back as the VI century B. C.) concerns a law, possibly relating to ceremonies held in this spot by the rex sacrificulus, or to the sacred character particular to the spot itself.”

“The arrangement indicates that the series of six pictures is to be read boustrophedonally, beginning at the lower right:[…]”

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