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hornbook::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | primer |
Examples of hornbook
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Like it or not, the American high school cannot return to the hornbook and the birch rod.
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He has produced a combined morality play and grimoire, or devil's hornbook, in which every creature is experienced with hilarious or dreadful concreteness.
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- A primer that provides instruction in the rudiments or basic skills of a branch of knowledge
- A hornbook is a book that serves as primer for study. The hornbook originated in England in 1450 (Huey, Edmund Burke). The term has been applied to a few different study materials in different fields. ...
- In United States legal education, hornbooks are one-volume legal treatises, written primarily for law students on subjects typically covered by law school courses.
- A single page containing the alphabet, covered with a sheet of transparent horn, formerly used for teaching children to read.^[1]; A legal textbook that gives a basic overview of a particular area of law
- A child's primer, made of parchment, mounted on a board with a handle, protected by a transparent plate made of horn.
- In modern usage Hornbook refers to treatises or secondary sources written for law students. They set forth the basic established principles of law for a given field and often explain how the law has developed. ...
- A sheet of paper, bearing the alphabet, combinations of consonants and vowels, the Lord's Prayer and the Roman numerals, which was mounted on a piece of wood resembling a small paddle horn. It was used for teaching children to read up until the 18th century, when it was replaced by the primer. ...
