(1475), originated from the Middle English 8 and earlier, 1390, from 8 was the mark +<\/i> or X<\/i> written before the alphabet. (The Greek symbol \u00d7<\/i>, abbreviation of Christos,<\/i> is of the same origin as \u00d7<\/i>8 for \u201cChristmas.\u201d)68 Learning the \u201cCriss-Cross Row,\u201d therefore, was the expression used for learning the alphabet. The mark stood for the phrase 8 (\u201cMay Christ\u2019s Cross give me success\u201d), an invocation said before reciting the alphabet.69 The Criss-Cross or Christ\u2019s-Cross (X) was also a form of written oath before God used when signing one\u2019s name on a document; and in the event a person could not write, was used in place of their signature.70<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
(1475), originated from the Middle English 8 and earlier, 1390, from 8 was the mark + or X written before the alphabet. (The Greek symbol \u00d7, abbreviation of Christos, is of the same origin as \u00d78 for \u201cChristmas.\u201d)68 Learning the \u201cCriss-Cross Row,\u201d therefore, was the expression used for learning the alphabet. The mark stood for … Continue reading “CRISS-CROSS”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}