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By notarikon words were constructed from the initials of several, or sentences formed by using the letters of a word as initials of words.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913
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A C L B is the notarikon of Anthony Charles Lynton Blair
Indymedia Ireland dizzy dissident 2010
mollusque commented on the word notarikon
Then, the counting machines that proclaimed the triumph of the quantitative but in truth pointed to the occult qualities of numbers, a return to the roots of the notarikon the rabbis carried with them as they fled through the plains of Europe.
--Umberto Eco, 1988, Foucault's Pendulum, p. 15
September 29, 2008
Gammerstang commented on the word notarikon
Notarikon is one of the three ancient methods used by the Kabbalists (the other two are gematria and temurah) to rearrange words and sentences. These methods were used in order to derive the esoteric substratum and deeper spiritual meaning of the words in the Bible.
January 10, 2018