LUPERCAL

  

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LUPERCAL

Definitions: LUPERCAL

LUPERCAL

Adjective

1. Of or pertaining to the Lupercalia.

Noun

1. A grotto on the Palatine Hill sacred to Lupercus, the Lycean Pan.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "LUPERCAL" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1599. (references)


Specialty Definitions: LUPERCAL

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Literature

Lupercal (The), strictly speaking, meant the place where Romulus and Remus were suckled by the wolf (lupus). A yearly festival was held on this spot on Feb. 15, in honour of Lupercus, the god of fertility. On one of these festivals Antony thrice offered to Julius Cæsar a kingly crown, but seeing the people were only half-hearted, Cæsar put it aside, saying, "Jupiter alone is king of Rome." Shakespeare makes Antony allude to this incident:
"You all did see that on the Lupercal
I thrice presented him a kingly crown.
Which he did thrice refuse."
Julius Caesar, iii. 2.
Shakespeare calls the Lupercalia "the feast of Lupercal" (act i. 1.), and probably he means the festival in Antony's speech, not the place where the festival was held. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Specialty Definition: Lupercal

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Lupercal is the place where Romulus and Remus were said to have been found by the lactating female wolf, who suckled them until they were found by Faustulus. Also known as "Lupercus". The feast of Lupercalia is closely associated with this location.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Lupercal."

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Commercial Usage: LUPERCAL

DomainTitle

Books

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: LUPERCAL

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

feast of lupercal

4

lupercal

3
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Anagrams: LUPERCAL

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-l-l-p-r-u"

-1 letter: pleural.

-2 letters: allure, apercu, caller, carpel, cellar, culler, culpae, laurel, parcel, placer, pleura, plural, puller, recall.

-3 letters: caper, carle, cella, clear, crape, cruel, culpa, cupel, lacer, lapel, lucre, pacer, paler, pareu, parle, pearl, place, puler, recap, ulcer, ureal.

-4 letters: acre, alec, aper, call, cape, care, carl, carp, caul, cell, clap, clue, crap, cull, cure.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-e-l-l-p-r-u"
 

+2 letters: peculiarly, precalculi, sepulchral, specularly.

 

+3 letters: peacefuller, polynuclear, precalculus.

 

+4 letters: euphorically, perceptually, procedurally, sepulchrally, superhelical.

 

+5 letters: ceruloplasmin, multiparticle, multispectral, porcellaneous, precalculuses, prejudicially, reproachfully, spectacularly, supercolossal, superficially.

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

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Alternative Orthography: LUPERCAL


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

4C 55 50 45 52 43 41 4C

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)

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

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

01001100 01010101 01010000 01000101 01010010 01000011 01000001 01001100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#76 &#85 &#80 &#69 &#82 &#67 &#65 &#76

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004C 0055 0050 0045 0052 0043 0041 004C

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

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

4655503952373546

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Anagrams 		5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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