HERBA SACRA

  

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HERBA SACRA

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Herba Sacra The "divine weed," vervain, said by the old Romans to cure the bites of all rabid animals to arrest the progress of venom, to cure the plague, to avert sorcery and witchcraft, to reconcile enemies, etc. So highly esteemed was it that feasts called Verbenalia were annually held in its honour. Heralds wore a wreath of vervain when they declared war; and the Druids held vervain in similar veneration.
"Lift your boughs of vervain blue,
Dipt in cold September dew;
And dash the moisture, chaste and clear,
O'er the ground, and through the air.
Now the place is purged and pure."
Mason. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Crosswords: HERBA SACRA

Specialty definitions using "HERBA SACRA": Divine PlantSacred Weed. (references)

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Anagrams: HERBA SACRA

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-a-b-c-e-h-r-r-s"

-3 letters: archaea, archers, bracers, braches, brasher, crasher.

-4 letters: abacas, abaser, archer, arches, arecas, baches, barres, basher, bracer, braces, brachs, breach, cabers, caesar, carers, casaba, casbah, charas, chares, charrs, chaser, eschar, racers, rasher, rebars, rehabs, scarab, scarer, search, sharer.

-5 letters: abaca, abase, abash, acerb, aches, acres, areas, areca, arras, barer, bares, barre, baser, beach, bears.

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

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Alternative Orthography: HERBA SACRA


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

48 45 52 42 41      53 41 43 52 41

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

    

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

01001000 01000101 01010010 01000010 01000001 00100000 01010011 01000001 01000011 01010010 01000001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#72 &#69 &#82 &#66 &#65 &#32 &#83 &#65 &#67 &#82 &#65

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0048 0045 0052 0042 0041      0053 0041 0043 0052 0041

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

423952363525335375235

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