English Explanatory Dictionary

Theban alphabet

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A substitution cipher of the Latin alphabet, used by early modern occultists.

Word forms

Theban alphabet the Theban alphabet

Etymology

It was first published in Johannes Trithemius's Polygraphia (1518), in which it was attributed to Honorius of Thebes.

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