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EXPISCATE

Definition: EXPISCATE

EXPISCATE

Transitive verb

1. To fish out; to find out by skill or laborious investigation; to search out.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Expiscate \Ex*pis"cate\, transitive verb. [Latin expression expiscatus, past participle of expiscari to fish out; ex out+piscari to fish, piscis fish.]. (Websters 1913)


Rhyming with "EXPISCATE"

Words rhyming with "EXPISCATE" (pronounced 'Ex*pis"cate'): Aberuncate, Averruncate, Baccate, Bisaccate, Bisulcate, Braccate, Conculcate, Conspurcate, Crebrisulcate, Demarcate, Detuncate, Evacate, Excecate, inculcate, Inescate, infuscate, Interlucate, Intermicate, Inviscate, Juncate, Mucate, Multisulcate, Obtruncate, Opacate, pacate, Porcate, Pyromucate, Quadrisulcate, relocate, Saccate, Siccate, Subaduncate, Trisulcate, vacate. (additional references)

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Anagrams: EXPISCATE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-i-p-s-t-x"

-1 letter: expiates, speciate.

-2 letters: aseptic, excepts, excites, expects, expiate, pectase, spicate.

-3 letters: apexes, apices, apiece, aspect, axites, epacts, escape, etapes, exacts, except, excise, excite, expats, expect, exsect, pastie, peaces, peseta, petsai, pieces, pietas, septic, specie, spicae, taxies.

-4 letters: aspic, axite, capes, caste, cates, cease, cepes, cesta, cesti, cetes, cites, epact, epics, etape, exact, execs, exist.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-e-e-i-p-s-t-x"
 

+1 letter: explicates.

 

+2 letters: cataplexies.

 

+3 letters: expectancies, expectations, sextuplicate.

 

+4 letters: sextuplicated, sextuplicates.

 

+5 letters: exceptionalism, expectorations, hypercatalexis.

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

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Alternative Orthography: EXPISCATE


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

45 58 50 49 53 43 41 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)

.    -..-    .--.    ..    ...    -.-.    .-    -    .

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000101 01011000 01010000 01001001 01010011 01000011 01000001 01010100 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#69 &#88 &#80 &#73 &#83 &#67 &#65 &#84 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0045 0058 0050 0049 0053 0043 0041 0054 0045

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

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

395850435337355439

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Rhymes
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography
5. Bibliography


  

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