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Alliterate :: Alliterate (v. t.) To employ or place so as to make alliteration.

Alliterate :: Alliterate (v. i.) To compose alliteratively; also, to constitute alliteration..

Alliteration :: Alliteration (n.) The repetition of the same letter at the beginning of two or more words immediately succeeding each other, or at short intervals; as in the following lines: -.

Alliterative :: Alliterative (a.) Pertaining to, or characterized by, alliteration; as, alliterative poetry..

Alliterator :: Alliterator (n.) One who alliterates.

Illiterate :: Illiterate (a.) Ignorant of letters or books; unlettered; uninstructed; uneducated; as, an illiterate man, or people..

Illiterature :: Illiterature (n.) Want of learning; illiteracy.

Literate :: Literate (a.) Instructed in learning, science, or literature; learned; lettered..

Literate :: Literate (n.) One educated, but not having taken a university degree; especially, such a person who is prepared to take holy orders..

Literate :: Literate (n.) A literary man.

Literati :: Literati (n. pl.) Learned or literary men. See Literatus.

Literati :: Literati (pl. ) of Literatu.

Literatim :: Literatim (adv.) Letter for letter.

Literation :: Literation (n.) The act or process of representing by letters.

Literator :: Literator (n.) One who teaches the letters or elements of knowledge; a petty schoolmaster.

Literator :: Literator (n.) A person devoted to the study of literary trifles, esp. trifles belonging to the literature of a former age..

Literator :: Literator (n.) A learned person; a literatus.

Literature :: Literature (n.) Learning; acquaintance with letters or books.

Literature :: Literature (n.) The collective body of literary productions, embracing the entire results of knowledge and fancy preserved in writing; also, the whole body of literary productions or writings upon a given subject, or in reference to a particular science or branch of knowledge, or of a given country or period; as, the literature of Biblical criticism; the literature of chemistry..

Literature :: Literature (n.) The class of writings distinguished for beauty of style or expression, as poetry, essays, or history, in distinction from scientific treatises and works which contain positive knowledge; belles-lettres..

Literature :: Literature (n.) The occupation, profession, or business of doing literary work..

Literatus :: Literatus (n.) A learned man; a man acquainted with literature; -- chiefly used in the plural.

Obliterate :: Obliterate (v. t.) To erase or blot out; to efface; to render undecipherable, as a writing..

Obliterate :: Obliterate (v. t.) To wear out; to remove or destroy utterly by any means; to render imperceptible; as. to obliterate ideas; to obliterate the monuments of antiquity.

Obliterate :: Obliterate (a.) Scarcely distinct; -- applied to the markings of insects.

Obliterated :: Obliterated (imp. & p. p.) of Obliterat.

Obliterating :: Obliterating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Obliterat.

Obliteration :: Obliteration (n.) The act of obliterating, or the state of being obliterated; extinction..

Obliterative :: Obliterative (a.) Tending or serving to obliterate.

Transliterate :: Transliterate (v. t.) To express or represent in the characters of another alphabet; as, to transliterate Sanskrit words by means of English letters..