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Date "LYCIDAS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Lycidas The name under which Milton celebrates the untimely death of Edward King, Fellow of Christ College, Cambridge, who was drowned in his passage from Chester to Ireland, August 10th, 1637. He was the son of Sir John King, Secretary for Ireland. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Crosswords: LYCIDAS |
| Specialty definitions using "LYCIDAS": Bellerus ♦ Neæera. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
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| "LYCIDAS" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 83.33% of the time. "LYCIDAS" is used about 6 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 83.33% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Noun (plural) | 16.67% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 6 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
lycidas | 8 |
lycidas milton | 3 |
lycidas by john milton | 2 |
john milton lycidas | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-d-i-l-s-y" | |
-1 letter: acidly, alcids. | |
-2 letters: acids, acidy, acyls, alcid, asdic, cadis, caids, clads, clays, daily, daisy, dials, idyls, laics, sadly, salic, sayid, scald, scaly. | |
-3 letters: acid, acyl, aids, ails, asci, cadi, cads, caid, cays, clad, clay, dais, dals, days, dial, disc, idly, idyl, lacs, lacy, lads, lady, laic, laid, lays, lids, sadi, said, sail, scad. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-d-i-l-s-y" | |
+1 letter: ecdysial, syndical. | |
+2 letters: caddishly, chrysalid, corydalis, dactylics, diacetyls, subacidly, synodical. | |
+3 letters: chrysalids, declassify, despicably, disyllabic, dysplastic, hydraulics, suicidally. | |
+4 letters: acrylamides, audaciously, bodaciously, chrysalides, corydalises, crystalized, crystalloid, cyclopedias, deistically, drastically, glycosidase, psychedelia, secondarily, syndicalism, syndicalist. | |
+5 letters: artiodactyls, considerably, crystallised, crystallized, crystalloids, cyclopaedias, decasyllabic, decreasingly, despotically, disciplinary, discordantly, discrepantly, distractedly, domestically, dynastically, episodically, glycosidases, mendaciously, prosodically, psychedelias, sadistically, sardonically, sporadically, syllabicated, syndactylies, syndactylism, syndetically, syndicalisms, syndicalists. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4C 59 43 49 44 41 53 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-.. -.--. -.-. .. -.. .- ... |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001100 01011001 01000011 01001001 01000100 01000001 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)L Y C I D A S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004C 0059 0043 0049 0044 0041 0053 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)46593743383553 |
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