[f. L. al-, ad- to + littera letter + -ATE3, on the analogy of obliterate, f. L. oblitterāt-um, oblitterā-re, already formed in L.]
1. intr. Of words: To begin with the same letter or group of letters, to constitute alliteration.
1816. Southey, Lett. (1856), III. 27. Moreover, the two L’s alliterate well.
2. Of persons: To compose alliteratively.
1826. Q. Rev., XXXIV. 13. The letters with which we alliterate.
