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Learned or literary men. See Literatus. Shakespearean commentators, and other literati. Craik.

Letter for letter.

The act or process of representing by letters.

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: - Behemoth, biggest born of earth, upheaved His vastness. Milton. Fly o'er waste fens and windy fields. Tennyson.

Pertaining to, or characterized by, alliteration; as, alliterative poetry. -- Al*lit"er*a*tive*ly, adv. -- Al*lit"er*a*tive*ness, n.

The act of obliterating, or the state of being obliterated; extinction. Sir. M. Hale.

Tending or serving to obliterate.

The act or product of transliterating, or of expressing words of a language by means of the characters of another alphabet.

Paronomasia; also, alliteration; annomination.

Pertaining to, or characterized by alliteration.

To employ or place so as to make alliteration. Skeat.

Alliteration. [Obs.] Tyrwhitt.

An obliteration of something written or printed; an erasure. Dryden.

form of latticework or cancelli; the phrase is now used figuratively for any manner of obliterating or defacing it. Blackstone.

The literati, or well educated class.

face or external appearance of; to disfigure; to injure, spoil, or mar, by effacing or obliterating important features or portions of; as, to deface a monument; to deface an edifice; to deface writing; to deface a note, deed, or bond; to deface a record. "This high face defaced." Emerson. So by false learning is good…

act of defacing, or the condition of being defaced; injury to the surface or exterior; obliteration.

The loss or obliteration of division into segments; as, a desegmentation of the body.

Am assembly or session of the Welsh bards; an annual congress of bards, minstrels and literati of Wales, -- being a patriotic revival of the old custom.

The act of erasing; a rubbing out; expunction; obliteration. Johnson.