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Definition of Pilcrow
1. n. a paragraph mark, ¶.
Definition of Pilcrow
1. Noun. The paragraph mark ¶. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Pilcrow
1. a paragraph-mark [n -S]
Medical Definition of Pilcrow
1.
A paragraph mark,
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Notes on English Etymology: Chiefly Reprinted from the Transactions of the by Walter William Skeat (1901)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pilcrow
Literary usage of Pilcrow
"We may assume, as sufficiently proved, that pilcrow and paragraph, words used with
... I have already given this explanation of pilcrow in my Dictionary, ..."
2. A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1901)
"the following mock invocation, is equally in apposition with that and metheglin :
PEEL-CROW, or pilcrow, *. The mark for a paragraph in printing. ..."
3. The History of the English Paragraph by Edwin Herbert Lewis (1894)
"In the time of Caxton's successor, De Worde, the word para graph had come to be
applied, under the guise of pilcrow, not only to the mark itself, ..."
4. An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1893)
"Parv. p. 398; see Way's note for further examples. Even the sign ^f, which was
used to mark the beginning of a paragraph, was called a pilcrow; ..."
5. Dictionary of Obsolete and Provincial English: Containing Words from the by Thomas Wright (1904)
"Var.d. PILCH-PIN, ». A large pin. Norf. pilcrow, 1 ». ... every abstract with
his moneth, and how to find out huswifery verses by the pilcrow. Tusser, p. ..."
6. A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1872)
"the following mock invocation, is equally in apposition with that and metheglin :
PEEL-CROW, or pilcrow, e. The mark for a paragraph in printing. ..."
7. The Promptorium parvulorum: The first English-Latin dictionary by Galfridus, Anthony Lawson Mayhew (1908)
"... as much as is comprehended in one sentence or section,' COTGRAVE. See SKEAT
Notes 1885, p. 316 (sv pilcrow). See Parafe, 1572. 335. 1620. Pyk. ..."
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