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| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Lucus a non Lucendo An etymological contradiction. The Latin word lucus means a "dark grove," but is said to be derived from the verb luce o, to shine. Similarly our word black (the Anglo-Saxon blaec) is derived from the verb blaec-an, to bleach or whiten. Beldam. An ugly hag. From the French belle dame. Bellum [war] quia minime bellum. (Priscian.) Bellum, a beautiful thing. Calid (hot) radically the same as the Saxon cald, German kalt (cold). Cleave, to part, also signifies to stick together. (Saxon, clifan, to adhere.) Curtana (the instrument that shortens by cutting off the head; French court, Italian corto is the blunt sword, emblematical of mercy, borne before our sovereigns at their coronation. Devoted (attached to is the Latin devotus (cursed). Eumenides (the well-disposed); the Furies. Euonyma (good name); is poisonous. Hiren, a sword, a bully. (Gk. irene, peace.) Kalo-Johannes, son of Alexius Comnenes. Called Kalos (handsome) because he was exceedingly ugly and undersized. He was, however, an active and heroic prince, and his son Manual (contemporary with Richard Coeur de Lion) was even more heroic still. Lambs were ruffians formerly employed at elections to use "physical force" to deter electors from voting for the opposition. Leucosphere, the inner and brighter portion of the sun's corona. It is neither white nor spherical. Lily-white, a chimney-sweep. Religion, bond-service (re-ligo, is the service of which Christ has made us free. Speaker of House of Commons. The only member that never makes speeches. Solomon, George III., so called by Dr. Wolcott, because he was no Solomon. In their marriage service the Jews break a wine-glass; the symbol being "as this glass can never be rejoined, so may our union be never broken." (See Misnomer.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Dissimilarity | Nothing of the kind; no such thing, quite another thing; far from it, cast in a different mold, tertium quid, as like a dock as a daisy, "very like a whale "; as different as chalk from cheese, as different as Macedon and Monmouth; lucus a non lucendo. |
Misnomer | Noun: misnomer; lucus a non lucendo; Mrs. Malaprop; what d'ye call 'em; (neologism); Hoosier. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: LUCUS A NON LUCENDO |
| Specialty definitions using "LUCUS A NON LUCENDO": Downy Cove. (references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-c-d-e-l-l-n-n-n-o-o-s-u-u-u" | |
-5 letters: uncalloused. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4C 55 43 55 53 41 4E 4F 4E 4C 55 43 45 4E 44 4F |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001100 01010101 01000011 01010101 01010011 00100000 01000001 00100000 01001110 01001111 01001110 00100000 01001100 01010101 01000011 01000101 01001110 01000100 01001111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)L U C U S   A   N O N   L U C E N D O |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004C 0055 0043 0055 0053 0041 004E 004F 004E 004C 0055 0043 0045 004E 0044 004F |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)46553755532352484948246553739483849 |
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