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ARCITE

Date "ARCITE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1374. (references)


Specialty Definition: ARCITE

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Literature

Arcite (2 syl.). A young Theban knight, made captive by Duke Theseus, and shut up with Palamon in a prison at Athens. Here both the captives fell in love with Emily, the duke's sister-in-law. After a time both captives gained their liberty, and Emily was promised by the duke to the victor in a tournament. Arcite was the victor, but, as he was riding to receive the prize of his prowess, he was thrown from his horse, and died. So Emily became the bride of Palamon. (Chaucer: The Knight Tale.)
The story is perhaps better known through Dryden's version, Palamon and Arcite. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Commercial Usage: ARCITE

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Books

  • The Knight's Tale or Palamon and Arcite by Geoffrey Chaucer Done Into Modern English by the Rev. Profess (reference)

    (more book examples)

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Anagrams: ARCITE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-i-r-t"

-1 letter: areic, caret, carte, cater, ceria, citer, crate, erica, irate, react, recta, recti, retia, terai, trace, triac, trice.

-2 letters: acre, airt, care, cart, cate, cire, cite, etic, race, rate, rice, rite, tace, tare, tear, tier, tire.

-3 letters: ace, act, air, ait, arc, are, art, ate, car, cat, ear, eat, era, eta, ice, ire, rat.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-e-i-r-t"
 

+1 letter: article, cattier, ceratin, certain, cigaret, cirrate, citrate, creatin, cristae, erotica, erratic, paretic, picrate, raciest, recital, stearic, tackier, tacrine, theriac.

 

+2 letters: accredit, acentric, acerbity, acierate, acridest, aetheric, agrestic, anoretic, anuretic, apyretic, argentic, articled, articles, artifice, bacteria, bacterin, boracite, brattice, canister, carinate, catbrier, catchier, catering, centiare, ceramist, ceratins, ceratoid, chapiter, chariest, chattier, cigarets, cisterna, citrated, citrates, clarinet, craftier, craniate, craziest, creatine, creating, creatins, creation, creative, crispate, cristate, criteria, cruciate, curative, dicentra, ergastic, erotical, erratics, feracity, hetaeric, hieratic, impacter, increate, interact, iterance, lacertid, literacy, loricate, matrices, metrical, mistrace, muricate, navicert, operatic, paretics, particle, patchier, phreatic, picrated, picrates, practice, practise, prelatic, rabietic, radicate, raticide, reacting, reaction, reactive, readdict, recitals, reticula, rhematic, scantier, scariest, scattier, scimetar, sterical, suricate, tacrines, tailrace, tetracid, tetradic, theatric, theriaca, theriacs, timecard, tracheid, tractile, tractive, trifecta, urticate, veracity, vertical, vicarate.

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Alternative Orthography: ARCITE


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

41 52 43 49 54 45

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 01010010 01000011 01001001 01010100 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0052 0043 0049 0054 0045

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

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

355237435439

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INDEX

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


  

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