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Date "ACTAEON" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Actaeon A hunter. In Grecian mythology Actæon was a huntsman, who surprised Diana bathing, was changed by her into a stag, and torn to pieces by his own hounds. Hence, a man whose wife is unfaithful. (See Horns.) "Go thou, like Sir Actæon, with Ringwood at thy heel." Shakespeare: Merry Wives, ii. 1. "Divulge Page himself for a secure and wilful Actæon." Ibid. iii. 2. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Artemis was once bathing nude in the woods when the hunter Actaeon stumbled across her. He stopped and stared, amazed at her ravishing beauty. When she saw him, Artemis changed him to a stag and, disgusted at his stares, set his own hounds to kill him. He was torn apart. Alternatively, Actaeon boasted that he was a better hunter than she and Artemis turned him into a stag and he was eaten by his hounds.
Ovid III, 193
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Crosswords: ACTAEON |
| English words defined with "ACTAEON": Stagworm. (references) |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | The woods ring again, and yet no fox bursts forth on to the open level of the pond, nor following pack pursuing their Actaeon. |
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Expressions using "ACTAEON": Hypoderma actaeon ♦ oestrus actaeon ♦ OEstrus or Hypoderma actaeon. Additional references. | |
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| 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 |
actaeon | 6 |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-n-o-t" | |
-1 letter: catena, octane. | |
-2 letters: aceta, antae, atone, canoe, canto, cento, conte, cotan, enact, oaten, ocean, octan. | |
-3 letters: acne, acta, aeon, anoa, anta, ante, cane, cant, cate, cent, coat, cone, cote, etna, neat, nota, note, once, tace, taco, toea, tone. | |
-4 letters: ace, act, ana, ane, ant, ate, can, cat, con, cot, eat, eon, eta, nae, net. | |
-5 letters: aa. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-e-n-o-t" | |
+1 letter: anecdota, oceanaut. | |
+2 letters: anchoveta, anecdotal, carbonate, caseation, diaconate, oceanauts. | |
+3 letters: abreaction, actionable, aeronautic, anchovetas, anchovetta, anecdotage, cantaloupe, carbonated, carbonates, caseations, catenation, chatoyance, coelacanth, covenantal, diaconates, emaciation, escalation, evacuation, excavation, isocyanate, laceration, lanceolate, maceration, outbalance, vacationed, vacationer. | |
+4 letters: abreactions, absorptance, acceptation, accountable, acetylation, aeronautics, affectation, affectional, altercation, anacreontic, anchovettas, anecdotages, anecdotally, anecdotical, anthracnose, anticathode, bicarbonate, cancelation, cantaloupes, catenations, ceratopsian, chaetognath, chatoyances, cocaptained, coelacanths, collectanea, concatenate, confabulate, containable, contaminate, decantation, decarbonate, declamation, declaration, defalcation, demarcation, educational, ejaculation, emaciations, emancipator, eradication, escalations, evacuations, excavations, exclamation, fractionate, isocyanates, lacerations, macerations, malefaction, nematocidal, nonadjacent, nonattached, outbalanced, outbalances, rarefaction, ratiocinate, reactionary, recantation, reclamation, redactional, thiocyanate, translocate, unallocated, uncataloged, vacationers. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 43 54 41 45 4F 4E |
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- -.-. - .- . --- -. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01000011 01010100 01000001 01000101 01001111 01001110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A C T A E O N |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0043 0054 0041 0045 004F 004E |
| 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)35375435394948 |
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