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Definition: Lucretius |
LucretiusNoun1. Roman philosopher and poet; in a long didactic poem he tried to provide a scientific explanation of the universe (96-55 BC). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Lucretius" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1509. (references) |
Synonym: LucretiusSynonym: Titus Lucretius Carus (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Lucretius |
| English words defined with "Lucretius": Titus Lucretius Carus. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Lucretius": Ages ♦ Devil loves Holy Water. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Clever | When immortal Death has taken mortal life. (references; author: Lucretius) The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone. (references; author: Lucretius) So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds. (references; author: Lucretius) What is food to one man is bitter poison to others. (references; author: Lucretius) For thee the wonder -- working earth puts forth sweet flowers. (references; author: Lucretius) | |
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| Author | Quotation |
Lucretius | When immortal Death has taken mortal life. |
| The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone. | |
| So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds. | |
| What is food to one man is bitter poison to others. | |
| For thee the wonder -- working earth puts forth sweet flowers. | |
| Mother of Aeneas and his race, darling of men and gods, nurturing Venus. | |
| The wailing of the newborn infant is mingled with the dirge for the dead. | |
| On a dark theme I trace verses full of light, touching all the muses' charm. | |
| Never trust her at any time, when the calm sea shows her false alluring smile. | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| "Lucretius" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 90.91% of the time. "Lucretius" is used about 11 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 90.91% | 10 | 111,207 |
| Noun (singular) | 9.09% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 11 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "Lucretius": Titus Lucretius Carus. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
lucretius | 18 |
lucretius nature things | 3 |
critic lucretius | 2 |
de lucretius natura rerum | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "Lucretius"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
German | Lukrez. (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | ucretiuslay | ||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-i-l-r-s-t-u-u" | |
-1 letter: cultures, curliest, utricles. | |
-2 letters: cluster, culture, curites, cutlers, icterus, luetics, lustier, relicts, relucts, ruliest, rutiles, utricle. | |
-3 letters: citers, citrus, cruets, cruise, cruset, culets, cultus, curets, curies, curite, curule, cuties, cutler, eructs, lister, liters, litres, lucres, luetic, luster, lustre, rectus, recuts, relics, relict, relist, reluct, result, rictus, rustic, rustle, rutile, slicer, sluice, stelic, steric. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-i-l-r-s-t-u-u" | |
+2 letters: apicultures, avicultures, multicourse, multisource, sericulture, tuberculins, ventriculus. | |
+3 letters: agricultures, aquicultures, maricultures, microtubules, multicourses, pisciculture, pulchritudes, sericultural, sericultures, silviculture, sylviculture, truculencies, tuberculosis, turbulencies, vinicultures, viticultures. | |
+4 letters: citricultures, elucubrations, floricultures, horticultures, intercultures, microcultures, muscularities, picturesquely, piscicultures, sericulturist, silvicultures, structuralize, sylvicultures. | |
+5 letters: arboricultures, avuncularities, discourteously, proventriculus, quadruplicates, scrupulosities, sericulturists, structuralized, structuralizes, ultraexclusive, ultramasculine. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4C 75 63 72 65 74 69 75 73 |
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-.. ..- -.-. .-. . - .. ..- ... |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001100 01110101 01100011 01110010 01100101 01110100 01101001 01110101 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)L u c r e t i u s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004C 0075 0063 0072 0065 0074 0069 0075 0073 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)468769847186758785 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Quotations: Familiar 8. Usage Frequency | 9. Expressions 10. Expressions: Internet 11. Translations: Modern 12. Anagrams | 13. Orthography 14. Bibliography |
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