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DONEGILD

Date "DONEGILD" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)


Specialty Definition: DONEGILD

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Literature

Donegild (3 syl.). The wicked mother of Alla, King of Northumberland. Hating Cunstance because she was a Christian, she put her on a raft with her infant son, and turned her adrift. When Alla returned from Scotland and discovered this cruelty of his mother, he put her to death. (Chaucer: Man of Lawes Tale.)
The tradition of St. Mungo resembles the Man of Lawes Tale in many respects. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Anagrams: DONEGILD

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-d-e-g-i-l-n-o"

-1 letter: glenoid.

-2 letters: dildoe, dindle, dinged, dingle, doiled, doling, dongle, eloign, engild, gilded, glided, golden, indole, legion, lodged, longed, noddle.

-3 letters: deign, dildo, dined, dinge, dingo, diode, dodge, dogie, doing, doled, eloin, gelid, geoid, glide, idled, indol, ingle, lined, lingo, loden, lodge, longe, nided, ogled, oiled, olden, oldie, olein.

-4 letters: deil, deli, deni, dido, died.

 Words containing the letters "d-d-e-g-i-l-n-o"
 

+3 letters: bobsledding, deadlocking, dendrologic, dislodgment, dogsledding, godchildren.

 

+4 letters: bobsleddings, degringolade, demodulating, dendrologies, dendrologist, diagonalized, dislodgement, dislodgments, overindulged.

 

+5 letters: degringolades, dendrological, dendrologists, dislodgements.

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

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Alternative Orthography: DONEGILD


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

44 4F 4E 45 47 49 4C 44

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)

01000100 01001111 01001110 01000101 01000111 01001001 01001100 01000100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 004F 004E 0045 0047 0049 004C 0044

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

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

3849483941434638

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