ITACISM

  

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ITACISM

Definition: ITACISM

ITACISM

Noun

1. Pronunciation of / (eta) as the modern Greeks pronounce it, that is, like e in the English word be. This was the pronunciation advocated by Reu/hlin and his followers, in opposition to the etacism of Erasmus. See Etacism.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Itacism \I"ta*cism\, noun. [Compare to the French expression itacisme. See Etacism, and compare to Iotacism.]. (Websters 1913)


Crosswords: ITACISM

English words defined with "ITACISM": EtacismItacist. (references)
Etymologies containing "ITACISM": Etacism. (references)

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Anagrams: ITACISM

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-i-i-m-s-t"

-1 letter: mastic, misact.

-2 letters: amici, maist, micas, mitis, tamis.

-3 letters: acts, aims, aits, amis, asci, cams, cast, cats, cist, macs, mast, mats, mica, mist, sati, scam, scat, sima, smit, tams, tics.

-4 letters: act, aim, ais, ait, ami, cam, cat, cis, ism, its, mac, mas, mat, mis, sac, sat, sic, sim, sit, tam, tas, tic, tis.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-i-i-m-s-t"
 

+1 letter: actinism, activism, atticism, iotacism, mastitic, meticais, scimitar.

 

+2 letters: actinisms, actiniums, activisms, amoristic, animistic, armistice, atomistic, atticisms, imagistic, iotacisms, machinist, miasmatic, misacting, mosaicist, prismatic, scimitars, simpatico, stigmatic, viaticums.

 

+3 letters: antimycins, antiracism, armistices, asceticism, astigmatic, calamities, camorristi, capitalism, ceramicist, chiasmatic, criminates, dynamistic, erraticism, familistic, fanaticism, hematinics, humanistic, imbricates, impactions, implicates, intimacies, isogametic, kinematics, machinists, manicurist, matricides, megacities, melanistic, melismatic, militances, minacities, miscaption, miscasting, mistracing, moralistic, morticians, mosaicists, musicality, mydriatics, numismatic, quitclaims, schismatic, septicemia, stigmatics, strabismic, talismanic, ultimacies.

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

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Alternative Orthography: ITACISM


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

49 54 41 43 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)

01001001 01010100 01000001 01000011 01001001 01010011 01001101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#73 &#84 &#65 &#67 &#73 &#83 &#77

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0049 0054 0041 0043 0049 0053 004D

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

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

43543537435347

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography
5. Bibliography


  

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