An abugida ( from Ge ‘ ez አቡጊዳ ’ äbugida ), also called an alphasyllabary, is a segmental writing system in which consonant – vowel sequences are written as a unit: each unit is based on a consonant letter, and vowel notation is secondary.

A few months before Augustus ’ death in 14, the emperor wrote and sent a letter to Agrippina mentioning how Caligula must be future emperor because at that time, no other child had this name.

It is has been argued that Luke may be writing: a letter of apology ( traditionally a defense for one ’ s beliefs ), a letter of legitimation for Christian beliefs, a letter to equip the church to function amidst the Roman Empire, or a letter that is apolitical.

* Arius, “ Arius ’ letter to Eusebius of Nicomedia ”, Ecclesiastical History, ed.

The Beowulf manuscript itself is mentioned in name for the first time in a letter in 1700 between George Hickes, Wanley ’ s assistant, and Wanley.

Cuthbert's letter on Bede's death, the Epistola Cuthberti de obitu Bedae, moreover, commonly is understood to indicate that Bede also composed a five line vernacular poem known to modern scholars as Bede ’ s Death Song

Bayer assigned a lower-case Greek letter, such as alpha ( α ), beta ( β ), gamma ( γ ), etc., to each star he catalogued, combined with the Latin name of the star ’ s parent constellation in genitive ( possessive ) form.

29: 10 – 19 ), or other pronouncements, such as Hezekiah ’ s Passover letter ( 2 Chr.

In a letter dated August 1, 1969, and addressed to the President of the Security Council, the Permanent Representative of Cambodia alleged to the United Nations Security Council that aircraft from the United States and South Vietnam scattered ‘ poisonous yellow powder ’ along its frontiers with South Vietnam in May and June.

A similar link between ” prophecy ” and ” encouragement ” is found in Paul ’ s letter to the Corinthians ( 1 Corinthians 14: 3 )

Graham ’ s father-in-law, L. Nelson Bell, mailed a fiery ten-page letter to most members of the BJU faculty and student body ( as well as to thousands of pastors across the country ) accusing Jones of “ hatred, distortions, jealousies, envying, malice, false witnessing, and untruthfulness .”

A few of his prophecies are bookish, such as when he knows that Baithene ’ s psalter is missing one letter “ I ” or when he prophecies that an eager man will knock over his inkhorn and spill the ink.

Gauguin, near the end of his career, wrote a letter to a friend in 1902, shortly before Pissarro ’ s death:

The writer of the letter of James identifies himself as “ a slave of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ ,” in much the same way as did Jude, who introduced the letter of Jude by calling himself “ a slave of Jesus Christ, but a brother of James .” ( Jas 1: 1 ; Jude 1 ) Furthermore, the salutation of James ’ letter includes the term “ Greetings !” in the same way as did the letter concerning circumcision that was sent to the congregations.

The letter concerned Augustine ’ s mission to Kent in 597, and in it Gregory says that he believes " that you wish your subjects in every respect to be converted to that faith in which you, their kings and lords, stand ".

Consequently, Sullivan was obliged to write a letter of apology to Ford ’ s advertising agency, Kenyon & Eckhardt, promising to never again move forward with such a controversial guest.

Additionally Phoebe was a deacon of the church in Cenchreae, a port to the east of Corinth, and would have been able to convey the letter to Rome after passing through Corinth and taking a ship from Corinth ’ s west port.

In a letter to Nikolaus von Amsdorf, Luther objected to Erasmus ’ Catechism and called Erasmus a " viper ," " liar ,"

In the letter, Hopkinson noted that he hadn ’ t asked for any compensation for the designs, but was now looking for a reward: “ a Quarter Cask of the public Wine .” The board sent that letter on to Congress.

A Specimen of typeset font s and language s, by William Caslon, letter founder ; from the 1728 Cyclopaedia, or an Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences | Cyclopaedia.

In German, words starting with sch-( constituting the German phoneme ) would be intercalated between words with initial sca-and sci-( all incidentally loanwords ) instead of this graphic cluster appearing after the letter s, as though it were a single letter — a lexicographical policy which would be de rigueur in a dictionary of Albanian, i. e. dh -, ë -, gj -, ll -, rr -, th -, xh-and zh-( all representing phonemes and considered separate single letters ) would follow the letters d, e, g, l, n, r, t, x and z respectively.

If the relative priorities of these substituents need to be established, R takes priority over S. When this happens, the descriptor of the stereocenter is a lowercase letter ( r or s ) instead of the uppercase letter normally used.

The acute and the grave accent indicate stress and vowel height, the cedilla marks the result of a historical palatalization, the diaeresis mark indicates either a hiatus, or that the letter u is pronounced when the graphemes gü, qü are followed by e or i, the interpunct (·) distinguishes the different values of nh / n · h and sh / s · h.

For biblical scholar John Knox, the use of the word “ name ” in 4: 14-16 is the “ crucial point of contact ” with that in Pliny ’ s letter.

In addition, many scholars in support of this theory believe that there is content within 1 Peter that directly mirrors the situation as portrayed in Pliny ’ s letter.

On January 7, 1610, Galileo wrote a letter containing the first mention of Jupiter ’ s moons.

When Hugo Gernsback published the first scientifiction magazine, Amazing Stories in 1926, he allowed for a large letter column which printed reader's addresses.

The angular momentum ( orbital ) quantum number ℓ is denoted in each column, using the usual spectroscopic letter code ( s means ℓ = 0, p means ℓ = 1, d means ℓ = 2 ).

Science fiction fandom started through the letter column of Hugo Gernsback's fiction magazines.

The first column shows the letter as typically rendered by the ubiquitous LaTeX markup system.

Columns 1-10 contains an optional statement label, comments or remarks are flagged using the letter " R " in column 11, and columns 73-80 are unused and could contain a sequence identifier.

For multiple sequences the last row in each column is often the consensus sequence determined by the alignment ; the consensus sequence is also often represented in graphical format with a sequence logo in which the size of each nucleotide or amino acid letter corresponds to its degree of conservation.

In order to encrypt a plaintext, one locates the row with the first letter to be encrypted, and the column with the first letter of the key.

The letter where the line and column cross is the ciphertext letter.

In order to encrypt a plaintext, one locates the row with the first letter to be encrypted, and the column with the first letter of the key.

The letter where the line and column cross is the ciphertext letter.

# If the letters appear on the same column of your table, replace them with the letters immediately below respectively ( wrapping around to the top side of the column if a letter in the original pair was on the bottom side of the column ).

On May 17, 1995, the Sun-Times food section published a bogus letter from a reader named " Olga Fokyercelf " that Chicago Tribune columnist ( and former Sun-Times columnist ) Mike Royko called " an imaginative prank " in a column.

" Although the Sun-Times began hiring a free-lancer to edit the space and look for double entendres, another one made it into the same column on July 26, 1995, when the section published a letter from a " Phil McCraken.

While in Berlin, he became interested in measures taken by the Nazi regime, contributed a column to Vremea dealing with the topic ( in which Cioran confessed that " there is no present-day politician that I see as more sympathetic and admirable than Hitler ", while expressing his approval for the Night of the Long Knives — " what has humanity lost if the lives of a few imbeciles were taken "), and, in a letter written to Petru Comarnescu, described himself as " a Hitlerist ".

For instance, the letter ' C ' in the first column indicates that the whole line is a comment and should be ignored by the compiler.

In a February 11, 2008 column written for the Daily Northwestern, Medill senior David Spett questioned the use of anonymous sources by Dean John Lavine in a letter Lavine wrote for Medill's alumni magazine.

The Marvel / Epic Comics editions had a long-running gag in the letter column, in which fans would ask Mark Evanier to define " mulch " and he would oblige with the same dictionary definition in every issue.

Text pieces, dubbed " The Shade's Journal " and dealing with that character's adventures over his long life, also appeared irregularly instead of a letter column.

After the Occupation and with the re-establishment of a free press, Edward Le Brocq ( 1877 – 1964 ) revived a weekly column in 1946 with a letter from Ph ' lip et Merrienne, supposedly a traditional old couple who would comment on the latest news or recall time past.