AD CAPTANDUM

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AD CAPTANDUM

Definition: AD CAPTANDUM

AD CAPTANDUM

1. A phrase used adjectively sometimes of meretricious attempts to catch or win popular favor.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Synonyms within Context: AD CAPTANDUM

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Affectation	Adjective: affected, full of affectation, pretentious, pedantic, stilted, stagy, theatrical, big-sounding, ad captandum; canting, insincere.
Deception	Adjective: deceived; Verb: deceiving; cunning; prestigious, prestigiatory; deceptive, deceptious; deceitful, covinous; delusive, delusory; illusive, illusory; elusive, insidious, ad captandum vulgus.
Flattery	Adverb: ad captandum.
Ostentation	Ad captandum vulgus.
Reasoning,	Deceptive, sophistical, jesuitical; illusive, illusory; specious, hollow, plausible, ad captandum, evasive; irrelevant.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Expressions: AD CAPTANDUM

Expressions using "AD CAPTANDUM": ad ad captandum ♦ ad captandum vulgus. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Anagrams: AD CAPTANDUM

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-a-c-d-d-m-n-p-t-u"
	-3 letters: tamandua.
	-4 letters: adamant, tamandu.
	-5 letters: adduct, ataman, captan, catnap, caudad, madcap, mantua, mudcap, mudcat, panada, panama, pataca, tampan.
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Alternative Orthography: AD CAPTANDUM

Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

41 44 43 41 50 54 41 4E 44 55 4D

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000001 01000100 00100000 01000011 01000001 01010000 01010100 01000001 01001110 01000100 01010101 01001101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#68 &#32 &#67 &#65 &#80 &#84 &#65 &#78 &#68 &#85 &#77

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0044 0043 0041 0050 0054 0041 004E 0044 0055 004D

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

35382373550543548385547

INDEX

1. Definition
2. Expressions
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography

5. Bibliography

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