Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Representation by letters: as, the literation of Oriental words in English. Compare
transliteration .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act or process of representing by letters.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The act or process of
representing byletters .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Over the last 23.5 hours I have finished a first and second draft of my story for the "literation of existing space art" antho.
Draft done frankwu 2006
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In other instances the literation in the aboriginal language of the nonesoteric songs and stories and their translation is necessary to comprehend the devices by which they are memorized rather than symbolized.
The Mide'wiwin or "Grand Medicine Society" of the Ojibwa Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 143-300 Walter James Hoffman 1872
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In other instances the literation in the aboriginal language of the nonesoteric songs and stories and their translation is necessary to comprehend the devices by which they are memorized rather than symbolized.
Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891 John Wesley Powell 1868
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Another question is of trans-literation (dont confuse it by translation) .....
ASP.NET Forums vijayrawatsan 2010
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(and a bunch of other LOLspeak) literation (writing a story based on an illustration, rather than the other way around) yoinked ganked sacrilicious
Buzz, Buzz, Buzzwords frankwu 2007
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The surveys for these lines, which have been made at the joint expense of the states bordering upon them, have clearly demonstrated the necessity of the work, owing to the ol) literation of former landmarks and the uncertainty of former lines.
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