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AMPHIDROMICAL

Definition: AMPHIDROMICAL

AMPHIDROMICAL

Adjective

1. Pertaining to an Attic festival at the naming of a child; -- so called because the friends of the parents carried the child around the hearth and then named it.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Amphidromical \Am`phi*drom"ic*al\, adjective. [from Greek expression 'amfi`dromos running about or around.]. (Websters 1913)


Rhyming with "AMPHIDROMICAL"

Words rhyming with "AMPHIDROMICAL" (pronounced 'Am`phi*drom"ic*al'): Abactinal, Abbatial, Abbatical, Abdal, Aberrational, Abettal, Abhal, Abhominal, Abiological, Abnormal, Aboral, Abortional, Abranchial, Absinthial, Abstractional, Abuttal, Abysmal, Abyssal, Academial, Accentual, Accessional, Accessorial, Accipitral, Accrementitial, Accrual, Accusal, Accusatival, Accusatorial, Acephal, Acerval, Acetal, Achenial, Acnodal, Aconital, Acoustical, Acquittal, Acranial, Acritical, Acromial, Acropetal, Acroterial, Actinal, Actinozoal, Actuarial, Adagial, Adambulacral, Adaptorial, Adenological, Adjectional, Adjectival. (additional references)

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Anagrams: AMPHIDROMICAL

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-c-d-h-i-i-l-m-m-o-p-r"

-4 letters: acidophil, dimorphic, homicidal, parochial.

-5 letters: acromial, amphoral, cardamom, chadarim, dioramic, drachmai, maiolica, mariachi, orphical, pachadom, picloram, pilchard, proclaim.

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

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Alternative Orthography: AMPHIDROMICAL


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

41 4D 50 48 49 44 52 4F 4D 49 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)

01000001 01001101 01010000 01001000 01001001 01000100 01010010 01001111 01001101 01001001 01000011 01000001 01001100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#77 &#80 &#72 &#73 &#68 &#82 &#79 &#77 &#73 &#67 &#65 &#76

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 004D 0050 0048 0049 0044 0052 004F 004D 0049 0043 0041 004C

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

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

35475042433852494743373546

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INDEX

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


  

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