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DOCIMACY

Definition: DOCIMACY

DOCIMACY

Noun

1. The art or practice of applying tests to ascertain the nature, quality, etc., of objects, as of metals or ores, of medicines, or of facts pertaining to physiology.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Docimacy \Doc"i*ma*cy\, noun. [Greek expression an assay, examination, from to examine (Metals), from assayed, tested, from to take, approve: compare to the French expression docimasie.]. (Websters 1913)


Anagrams: DOCIMACY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-c-d-i-m-o-y"

-2 letters: cadmic, cymoid, daimyo, modica.

-3 letters: acidy, acmic, amido, comic, cycad, domic, myoid.

-4 letters: acid, amid, cadi, caid, ciao, coca, coda, coma, cyma, maid, mayo, mica, modi, odic.

-5 letters: ado, aid, aim, ami, cad, cam, cay, cod, coy, dam, day, dim, doc, dom, icy, mac, mad, may, mid, moa, moc, mod, oca, yam, yid, yod.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-c-d-i-m-o-y"
 

+3 letters: comedically.

 

+5 letters: complicatedly, psychodynamic.

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

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Alternative Orthography: DOCIMACY


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

44 4F 43 49 4D 41 43 59

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 01001111 01000011 01001001 01001101 01000001 01000011 01011001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#79 &#67 &#73 &#77 &#65 &#67 &#89

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 004F 0043 0049 004D 0041 0043 0059

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

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

3849374347353759

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2. Anagrams
3. Orthography
4. Bibliography


  

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