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ELEATIC

Definitions: ELEATIC

ELEATIC

Adjective

1. Of or pertaining to a certain school of Greek philosophers who taught that the only certain science is that which owes nothing to the senses, and all to the reason.

Noun

1. A philosopher of the Eleatic school.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "ELEATIC" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Etymology: Eleatic \E`le*at"ic\, adjective. [Latin expression eleaticus, from Elea (or Velia) in Italy.]. (Websters 1913)

"ELEATIC" is a common misspelling or typo for: eclectic, elastic, electric, elevate, elicit, elliptic, emetic.

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Crosswords: ELEATIC

English words defined with "ELEATIC": EleaticismItalic school. (references)
Specialty definitions using "ELEATIC": NihiloPhilosophers. (references)

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Commercial Usage: ELEATIC

DomainTitle

Books

  • Form and Good in Plato's Eleatic Dialogues: The Parmenides, Theaetetus, Sophist, and Statesman (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Modern Translations: ELEATIC

Language Translations for "eleatic"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Pig Latin

  

eleaticay.(various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "ELEATIC"

Words rhyming with "ELEATIC" (pronounced 'E`le*at"ic'): Abdominothoracic, Abietic, Abietinic, Abiogenetic, Ablastemic, Abrahamic, Acerbic, Aceric, Acetonic, Achromatic, Achronic, Acidic, Acidific, Aclinic, Acologic, Acopic, Acroatic, Acrobatic, Acrocephalic, Acromonogrammatic, Acrotic, Acrylic, Actinic, Actinolitic, Actinophonic, Adelocodonic, Adenographic, Adenotomic, Adiabatic, Adiactinic, Adipic, Adipolytic, Adonic, Adriatic, Adynamic, AEolotropic, Aerobiotic, Aerodynamic, Aerolitic, AEsthesodic, Agamic, Agamogenetic, Agenesic, Agnatic, Agonic, Agonothetic, Agraphic, Agrypnotic, Albinotic, Alcaic, Alcoranic, Alcyonic, Aldermanic, Aleuronic, Alexipyretic, Algific, Aliphatic, Alkoranic, Allantoic, Allochroic, Allopathic, Allotrophic, Alloxanic, Aluminic, Amacratic, Amasthenic, Amaurotic, Amblotic, Amblyopic, Ambreic, Amharic, Amic, Amitotic, Amniotic, Amorphozoic, Amphibolic, Amphichroic, Amphictyonic, Amphigonic, Amphigoric, Amphoric, Amphoteric, Amuletic, Amygdalic, Amylic, Amylogenic, Anabatic, Anabolic, Anacrotic, Anaemic, Anaerobiotic, Anaglyptographic, Anallagmatic, Anallantoic, Analogic, Anamniotic, Anaphroditic, Anaplerotic, Anapnoic, Anaptotic, Anastatic, Anastigmatic, Anastomotic, Anchylotic, Anemographic, Anemonic, Anetic, Anharmonic, Anilic, Anisic, Anisomeric, Anisosthenic, Anoetic, Antarthritic, Antasthmatic, Antemetic, Antemosaic, Anthozoic, Anthracic, Anthracitic, Anthropogenic, Anthropomorphitic, Anthypnotic, Anthysteric, Antiasthmatic, Antibubonic, Anticausodic, Anticausotic, Anticivic, Antidiphtheritic, Antidysenteric, Antiemetic, Antihemorrhagic, Antihydrophobic, Antihydropic, Antihypnotic, Antihysteric, Antiicteric, Antilithic, Antimephitic, Antimonic, Antinephritic, Antiparalytic, Antipathic, Antiperiodic, Antiperistatic, Antiphonic, Antiphthisic, Antipsoric, Antipyic, Antipyretic, Antipyrotic, Antirachitic, Antispasmodic, Antistrophic, Antistrumatic, Antisyphilitic, Antizymic, Antizymotic, Aphanitic, Apheliotropic, Aphetic, Aphroditic, Aplanatic, Apneumatic, Apochromatic, Apogaic, Apogamic, Apogeotropic, Aponeurotic, Apophlegmatic, Aposematic, Apositic, Apostatic, Apostrophic, Apotelesmatic, Aptotic, Apyretic, Aramaic, Archaeolithic, Archaeozoic, Archaic, Archangelic, Archchemic, Archenteric, Archipelagic, Arenilitic, Areopagitic, Argolic, Argonautic, Aristophanic, Aristotelic, Arthrodynic, Arthrozoic, Asiatic, Astatic, Asthenic, Astigmatic, Astronomic, Asyndetic, Atavic, Ataxic, Athletic, Atrophic, Augitic, Auletic, Autohypnotic, Autokinetic, Autonomic, Autopathic, Autopneumatic, Autostylic, Autotoxic, Autotrophic, Auxetic, Azoic, Azoleic, Azonic, Azotic, Azymic, Balearic, Barbaic, Bardic, Barytic, Basaltic, Bathetic, Bathygraphic, Benefic, Benthamic, Benzoic, Bibliopegic, Biogenetic, Biolytic, Biomagnetic, Biotic, Blastematic, Boletic, Boracic, Boustorphic, boustrophedonic, Bregmatic, Bronchitic, Bubonic, Butyric, Cabiric, Cacodylic, Caffeic, Calcific, Caligraphic, Calorific, Camphoric, Camphretic, Caproic, Caprylic, Carbamic, Carbazotic, Carbolic, Carbonic, Cardiographic, Carminic, Carolitic, Carotic, Carpogenic, Catabiotic, Catacrotic, Catagmatic, Cataphonic, Catastrophic, Catechuic, Categorematic, Catelectrotonic, Cathedralic, Catheretic, Cathodic, Cenozoic, Centrobaric, Ceramic, Cerotic, Cerulific, Cetraric, Cetylic, Chalcedonic, Chaldaic, Chaotic, Charismatic, Chelidonic, Chemiglyphic, Chimeric, Chiromonic, Chloridic, Chloriodic, Chloritic, Chloroplatinic, Chlorotic, Choleic, Choleraic, Cholesteric, Chondritic, Choragic, Choreic, Chrestomathic, Chromatic, Chromogenic, Chromolithographic, Chromospheric, Chronic, Chronographic, Chthonic, Chylific, Chylopoetic, Cinchonic, Cinnamic, Cinnamomic, Cirrhotic, Cistic, Civic, Classific, Climatic, Clinographic, Clonic, Cobaltic, Colletic, Colorific, Cometic, Commatic, Conchitic, Conspecific, Coprolitic, Cornific, Cosmoramic, Cosmothetic, Coumaric, Creatic, Cremasteric, Cresylic, Croconic, Crotaphitic, Crotonic, Cubebic, Cuminic, Cuneatic, Cyanic, Cyanotic, Cyclonic, Cyclopedic, Cyclopic, Cyrenaic, Cyriologic, Cystic, Cystolithic, Czechic, Damnific, Daric, Dartoic, Davidic, Decasyllabic, Decatoic, Decylic, Deltaic, Democratic, Demosthenic, Demotic, Dermatopathic, Dermopathic, Desoxalic, Deuterogenic, Deuteropathic, Diactinic, Diaeretic, Diageotropic, Diagrammatic, Diaheliotropic, Dialytic, Dianoetic, Diaphanic, Diaphragmatic, Diapnoic, Diastatic, Diastolic, Diathetic, Diatomic, Diatonic, Dicarbonic, Dichroic, Dichroitic, Dichromatic, Dichroscopic, Diclinic, Dicrotic, Didascalic, Dietic, Digraphic, Dioramic, Dioritic, Diorthotic, Diphtheritic, Diphthongic, Diphygenic, Diploetic, Diplogenic. (additional references)

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Anagrams: ELEATIC

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

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

-1 letter: atelic.

-2 letters: cleat, eclat, elate, elect, elite, ileac, telae, telia, telic, tical.

-3 letters: alec, alee, alit, cate, ceil, celt, cete, cite, clit, etic, ilea, lace, laic, late, lati, leet, lice, lite, tace, tael, tail, talc, tale, tali, teal, teel, tela, tele, tile.

-4 letters: ace, act, ail, ait, ale, alt, ate, cat, cee, cel, eat, eel, eta, ice, lac, lat, lea, lee, lei, let, lie, lit, tae, tea, tee, tel, tic, tie, til.

-5 letters: ae, ai, al, at, el, et, it, la, li, ta, ti.

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

+1 letter: celibate, citeable, delicate.

 

+2 letters: cartelise, cartelize, celestial, celibates, clientage, decaliter, delicates, elucidate, excitable, explicate, genetical, heretical, interlace, latencies, leachiest, petechial, replicate, tailpiece, timescale.

 

+3 letters: acetylenic, altarpiece, anthelices, binucleate, cantilever, cartelised, cartelises, cartelized, cartelizes, celestials, centennial, centesimal, centralise, centralize, chatelaine, cleanliest, clematises, clientages, colemanite, collegiate, craterlike, creatively, credential, creditable, decaliters, delicately, electrical, elucidated, elucidates, emblematic, emetically, epicentral, eremitical, exegetical, explicated, explicates, extricable, facelifted, felicitate, geniculate, geodetical, hemiacetal, hermetical, indelicate, injectable, interlaced, interlaces, lacerative, lemniscate, licentiate, linecaster, literacies, maledicted, maleficent, mercantile, noticeable, pediculate, plasticene, preethical, reactively, refractile, replicated, replicates, reticulate, retractile, specialest, tailpieces, telepathic, timescales, trancelike, ulcerative, vesiculate.

 

+4 letters: acetanilide, acetylative, adjectively, aeroelastic, aesthetical, affectively, aliteracies, altarpieces, atelectasis, binucleated, bleacherite, calorimeter, cantilevers, cappelletti, catalepsies, cataplexies, celebrating, celebration, celestially, centennials, centralised, centralises, centralized, centralizer, centralizes, centripetal, certifiable, chanticleer, chatelaines, clandestine, coevalities, colemanites, correlative, credentials, crenelation, deceptional, declarative, dedicatedly, deglaciated, delectation, denticulate, eidetically, elasticized, elastomeric, electrician, electuaries, elucidative, enucleating, enucleation, epithetical, esemplastic, ethicalness, evocatively, exceptional, executorial, explicative, exultancies, felicitated, felicitates, geanticline, genetically, geniculated, geometrical, gesticulate, glycerinate, hemiacetals, heretically, incalescent, incremental, ineffectual, ineluctable, inflectable, injectables, intercalate, intercensal, intolerance, lecithinase, lemniscates, licentiates, lieutenancy, linecasters, mantelpiece, metaethical, oligochaete, pedicellate, pediculates, penicillate, perithecial, petulancies, plasticenes, praelecting, predictable, recalibrate, recirculate, rectifiable, rectilinear, recultivate, reduplicate, reinoculate, relubricate, replicative, reticulated, reticulates, revictualed, secretarial, specialties, speculative, telecasting, telegraphic, theoretical, unexcitable, uninucleate, vermiculate, vesiculated, vesiculates, vorticellae.

 

+5 letters: accelerating, acceleration, accelerative, accreditable, acetanilides, acetonitrile, antielectron, antileukemic, antiviolence, atheoretical, autecologies, bibliothecae, bicentennial, bleacherites, calorimeters, cantilevered, cartwheeling, catechetical, celebrations, centennially, centralities, centralizers, chanticleers, cladogenetic, clearstories, coequalities, collegiately, conferential, correlatives, credentialed, crenelations, crenellation, cybernetical, decelerating, deceleration, decentralize, dechlorinate, decoratively, deescalating, deescalation, delectations, delicatessen, denticulated, detractively, dietetically, displacement, ecclesiastic, eclectically, effectuality, elasticities, electability, electrically, electricians, emblematical, encephalitic, encephalitis, enucleations, epexegetical, esoterically, ethicalities, evangelistic, exoterically, extractively, flatulencies, frenetically, geanticlines, geotechnical, gesticulated, gesticulates, glycerinated, glycerinates, hermetically, illiteracies, indelicately, inextricable, inoperculate, intellectual, interallelic, intercalated, intercalates, interchannel, internuclear, intolerances, lecithinases, lectionaries, legitimacies, leptocephali, lexicalities, mantelpieces, metathetical, meteorically, meteoritical, misplacement, multifaceted, multivalence, neorealistic, nucleotidase, oligochaetes, palingenetic, perceptional, perspectival, phylacteries, pinealectomy, poeticalness, precentorial, preceptorial, precipitable, preeclamptic, rearticulate, recalibrated, recalibrates, recapitalize, recapitulate, recirculated, recirculates, recreational, recultivated, recultivates, reduplicated, reduplicates, reescalating, reescalation, reflectional, refractively, reinoculated, reinoculates, relubricated, relubricates, reluctancies, reticulately, retinotectal, revictualled, secularities, semimetallic, sextuplicate, specialities, technicalize, teleological, tetracycline, ultraprecise, unnoticeable, vermiculated, verticalness, verticillate.

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

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Alternative Orthography: ELEATIC


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

45 4C 45 41 54 49 43

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)

01000101 01001100 01000101 01000001 01010100 01001001 01000011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#69 &#76 &#69 &#65 &#84 &#73 &#67

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0045 004C 0045 0041 0054 0049 0043

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

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

39463935544337

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Translations: Modern
5. Rhymes
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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