EUHEMERISM

  

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EUHEMERISM

Definition: EUHEMERISM

EUHEMERISM

Noun

1. The theory, held by Euhemerus, that the gods of mythology were but deified mortals, and their deeds only the amplification in imagination of human acts.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Crosswords: EUHEMERISM

English words defined with "EUHEMERISM": Euhemerist, Euhemeristic, Euhemerize. (references)

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Derivations: EUHEMERISM

Derivations

Words beginning with "EUHEMERISM": euhemerisms. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "EUHEMERISM"

Words rhyming with "EUHEMERISM" (pronounced 'Eu*hem"er*ism'): Abolitionism, Absenteeism, Absinthism, Absolutism, Academicism, Academism, Accidentalism, Achromatism, Acosmism, Acrobatism, Acrotism, Actinism, Adiaphorism, AEstheticism, Africanism, Agnosticism, Agonism, Agrarianism, Agriculturism, Albinism, Albinoism, Alcoholism, Alienism, Allodialism, Allomerism, Allomorphism, Allotheism, Alphabetism, Altruism, Amateurism, Americanism, Amorphism, Anabaptism, Anachorism, Anachronism, Anacrotism, Anagrammatism, Analogism, Anamorphism, Anarchism, Anathematism, Anatocism, Anatomism, Anchoretism, Andabatism, Aneurism, Anglicanism, Anglicism, Anglo-Catholicism, Anglo-Saxonism. (additional references)

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Anagrams: EUHEMERISM

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-e-e-h-i-m-m-r-s-u"

-3 letters: emeries, hemmers, hummers, immerse, immures, meshier, mushier, rummies, shimmer.

-4 letters: emeers, emmers, hemmer, humeri, hummer, immesh, immure, mimers, musher, rehems, remise, resume, rheums, rushee, seemer, sememe, simmer, summer.

-5 letters: eerie, emeer, emeus, emirs, emmer, heirs, hemes, heres, herms, hires, memes, meres, mimer, mimes, mires, miser, mures, muser, rehem, resee, reuse, rheum, rimes, serum.

 Words containing the letters "e-e-e-h-i-m-m-r-s-u"
 

+1 letter: euhemerisms.

 

+5 letters: methylmercuries.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: EUHEMERISM


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

45 55 48 45 4D 45 52 49 53 4D

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

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.    ..-    ....    .    --    .    .-.    ..    ...    --

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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

01000101 01010101 01001000 01000101 01001101 01000101 01010010 01001001 01010011 01001101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#69 &#85 &#72 &#69 &#77 &#69 &#82 &#73 &#83 &#77

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0045 0055 0048 0045 004D 0045 0052 0049 0053 004D

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

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

39554239473952435347

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Derivations
4. Rhymes
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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