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Definition: ANCILE |
ANCILENoun1. The sacred shield of the Romans, said to have-fallen from heaven in the reign of Numa. It was the palladium of Rome. |
Etymology: Ancile \An*ci"le\, noun. [Latin expression]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Ancile (3 syl.) The Palladium of Rome. It was the sacred buckler which Numa said fell from heaven. To prevent its being stolen, he caused eleven others to be made precisely like it, and confided them to twelve priests called Salii, who bore them in procession through the city every year at the beginning of March. "Idque ancile vocat, quod ab omni parte recisum est, Quemque notes oculis, angulus omnis abest." Ovid: Fasti, iii. 377. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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 |
ancile pharmaceutical | 4 |
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| Words rhyming with "ANCILE" (pronounced 'An*ci"le'): Amole, Atole, AXLE, boule, Campanile, Capelle, Carpale, Chambranle, Cubile, Dadle, finale, Gisle, Medle, Mesopodiale, Metapodiale, molle, Pastorale, Peele, Pellile, Phyle, Propodiale, Radiale, rationale, reveille, Secale, Strikle, tamale, Thule, Tule, Ule, Weroole. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: inlace. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-i-l-n" | |
-1 letter: alien, aline, anile, clean, cline, elain, ileac, lance, liane, linac. | |
-2 letters: acne, alec, anil, cain, cane, ceil, cine, clan, elan, ilea, lace, laic, lain, lane, lean, lice, lien, line, nail, nice. | |
-3 letters: ace, ail, ain, ale, ane, ani, can, cel, ice, lac, lea, lei, lie, lin, nae, nil. | |
-4 letters: ae, ai, al, an, el. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-i-l-n" | |
+1 letter: angelic, anglice, calcine, capelin, carline, cauline, encinal, galenic, inlaced, inlaces, melanic, panicle, pelican, sanicle, scaleni. | |
+2 letters: acauline, achenial, acrolein, alcidine, alliance, alnicoes, analcime, analcite, ancillae, angelica, baculine, binnacle, bioclean, cageling, calamine, calcanei, calcined, calcines, calycine, canaille, canalise, canalize, canfield, canticle, capelins, carlines, cephalin, clarinet, cleaning, clearing, cleating, cleaving, cliental, coinable, colinear, dulcinea, enlacing, ethnical, glaceing, inchmeal, irenical, lacewing, laciness, laitance, lanciers, leaching, limacine, lunacies, manciple, melanics, meniscal, mycelian, panicled, panicles, pelicans, pinnacle, relacing, reliance, salicine, salience, saliency, sanicles, scenical, valencia, valiance. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 4E 43 49 4C 45 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- -. -.-. .. .-.. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01001110 01000011 01001001 01001100 01000101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A N C I L E |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 004E 0043 0049 004C 0045 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)354837434639 |
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