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DESCANTING

Definition: DESCANTING

DESCANTING

Personal pronoun & verb & noun

1. Of Descant

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "DESCANTING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1726. (references)


Use in Literature: DESCANTING

TitleAuthorQuote

Gulliver's Travels

Swift, Jonathan

But I forbear descanting farther, and rather leave the judicious reader to own remarks and applications.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Misspellings: DESCANTING

Misspellings

"DESCANTING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Desanti. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: DESCANTING

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-g-i-n-n-s-t"

-1 letter: ascending, decanting, instanced.

-2 letters: ancients, antigens, canniest, distance, enacting, encasing, gentians, incanted, insectan, instance, scandent, scanting, scending, scenting, sedating, standing, steading.

-3 letters: acetins, actings, agisted, ancient, anteing, antigen, antings, cagiest, candent, candies, canines, canting, casting, ceasing, censing, cineast, dancing, deaning, decants, denting, dentins, descant, destain, detains, discant, easting, eatings, encinas, endings, gannets, gentian.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-d-e-g-i-n-n-s-t"
 

+2 letters: transcending.

 

+3 letters: disenchanting, undercoatings.

 

+4 letters: countershading, decompensating, deconsecrating, xenodiagnostic.

 

+5 letters: countershadings, disenchantingly, reconsolidating.

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

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Alternative Orthography: DESCANTING


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

44 45 53 43 41 4E 54 49 4E 47

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)

01000100 01000101 01010011 01000011 01000001 01001110 01010100 01001001 01001110 01000111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#69 &#83 &#67 &#65 &#78 &#84 &#73 &#78 &#71

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0045 0053 0043 0041 004E 0054 0049 004E 0047

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

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

38395337354854434841

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Quotations: Fiction
3. Derivations
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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