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Glag⋅o⋅lit⋅ic

  [glag-uh-lit-ik]
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–adjective
1. noting or written in an alphabet, probably invented by St. Cyril in about a.d. 865, formerly used in writing Old Church Slavonic and other Slavic languages: almost completely replaced by Cyrillic starting about the 10th century.
–noun
2. the Glagolitic alphabet.
Origin:
1860–65; < NL glagoliticus, equiv. to glagolit(a), Latinization of Serbo-Croatian glagòljica (ult. deriv. of OCS glagolŭ speech, word) + -icus -ic
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Glag·o·lit·ic   (glāg'ə-lĭt'ĭk)   
adj.  Belonging to or written in an uncial cursive alphabet attributed to Saint Cyril, formerly used in the writing of various Slavic languages but now limited to the Catholic liturgical books used by some communities along the Dalmatian coast.

[From Serbo-Croatian glagoljica, from glagol, word, from Old Church Slavonic glagolŭ; see gal- in Indo-European roots.]
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Glagolitic 
1861, from Serbo-Croat glagolica "Glagolitic alphabet," from O.C.S. glagolu "word" (see calendar) + Gk. suffix -itic. The older of the two Slavic writing systems (Cyrillic is the other), it was designed by Cyrillus c.863 C.E.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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