SCAPHISM

  

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SCAPHISM

Definition: SCAPHISM

SCAPHISM

Noun

1. An ancient mode of punishing criminals among the Persians, by confining the victim in a trough, with his head and limbs smeared with honey or the like, and exposed to the sun and to insects until he died.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Scaphism \Scaph"ism\, noun. [from Greek expression ska`fh trough.]. (Websters 1913)



Specialty Definitions: SCAPHISM

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Literature

Scaphism Locking up a criminal in the trunk of a tree, bored through so as just to admit the body. Five holes were made- one for the head, and the others for the hands and legs. These parts were anointed with honey to invite the wasps. In this situation the criminal would linger in the burning sun for several days. (Greek, skaphe, anything scooped out.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Rhyming with "SCAPHISM"

Words rhyming with "SCAPHISM" (pronounced 'Scaph"ism'): Absenteeism, Anticivism, Antitheism, Aramaism, Bahaism, Bardism, Boodhism, Bossism, Boyism, Buffoonism, Burkism, Cavalierism, Chartism, Chemism, Churchism, Civism, Dashism, Deism, Dilettantism, Falsism, Frenchism, Geusdism, Hylozoism, Incivism, Irishism, Jainism, Laism, Lamarckism, Lyrism, Malebranchism, Mandarinism, Mutism, Neo-Lamarckism, Occultism, Old-maidism, Ophism, Opportunism, Owlism, Panslavism, Panzoism, Pasteurism, Pharisaism, Priestism, Purism, Quackism, Rantism, Red-tapism, Routinism, Saintism, Sclavism, Scribism, Sectism, Selfism, Sensism, Slavism, sophism, Spermism, Spyism, Sutteeism, Transformism, truism, Untruism, Voltairism, Zoism. (additional references)

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Anagrams: SCAPHISM

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: scampish.

Words within the letters "a-c-h-i-m-p-s-s"

-1 letter: chiasms, mishaps.

-2 letters: aspics, aspish, champs, chasms, chiasm, chimps, mishap, passim, phasic, phasis, scampi, scamps, schism, spahis, spicas.

-3 letters: amiss, aphis, apish, apsis, aspic, aspis, campi, camps, caphs, champ, chams, chaps, chasm, chias, chimp, chips, hasps, machs, micas, picas, pimas, samps, scamp, scams, shams, shims, ships, simas, simps, smash, spahi, spams, spasm, spica, spics.

-4 letters: aims, amis, amps, asci, asps, camp, cams, caph, caps, cash, cham, chap, chia, chip, chis, hams, haps, hasp, hips, hiss, ichs, imps, isms, mach, macs, maps, mash, mass, mica, miss, pacs, pams, pash, pass, phis, pias, pica, pics, pima, pish, piss, psis, sacs, samp, saps, sash, scam, sham, shim, ship, sics, sima, simp, sims, sips, spam, spas, spic.

-5 letters: aim, ais, ami, amp, ash, asp, ass, cam, cap, chi, cis, ham, hap, has, hic, him, hip, his, ich, imp, ism, mac, map, mas, mis, pac, pah, pam, pas, phi, pia, pic, pis, psi, sac, sap, sha, sic, sim, sip, sis, spa.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-h-i-m-p-s-s"
 

+2 letters: mispatches.

 

+3 letters: metaphysics, phallicisms, pharmacists, physicalism, scyphistoma, symposiarch.

 

+4 letters: accomplishes, atmospherics, comradeships, musicianship, mycophagists, photomosaics, physicalisms, scyphistomae, scyphistomas, sycophantism, sympathetics, symposiarchs.

 

+5 letters: accomplishers, catastrophism, chairmanships, championships, cosmographies, craftsmanship, musicianships, parochialisms, psychosomatic, seismographic, sycophantisms.

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

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Alternative Orthography: SCAPHISM


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

53 43 41 50 48 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)

01010011 01000011 01000001 01010000 01001000 01001001 01010011 01001101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#67 &#65 &#80 &#72 &#73 &#83 &#77

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0043 0041 0050 0048 0049 0053 004D

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

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

5337355042435347

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INDEX

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


  

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