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MACSYCOPHANT

Specialty Definition: MACSYCOPHANT

DomainDefinition

Literature

Macsycophant (Sir Pertinax). In The Man of the World, by Charles Macklin, Sir Pertinax "bowed, and bowed, and bowed," and cringed, and fawned, to obtain the object of his ambition. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Synonyms within Context: MACSYCOPHANT

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Flatterer

Toady, toadeater; sycophant, courtier, Sir Pertinax MacSycophant; flaneur, proneur; puffer, touter, claqueur; clawback, earwig, doer of dirty work; parasite, hanger-on; (servility).

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Anagrams: MACSYCOPHANT

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-c-c-h-m-n-o-p-s-t-y"

-3 letters: accompany, sycophant, yachtsman.

-4 letters: apostacy, champacs, coachman, compacts, copycats, panochas, phantasm, phantasy, phantoms, stomachy, tachyons, yachtman.

-5 letters: anatomy, canchas, capstan, captans, catnaps, caymans, chacmas, champac, chapman, compact, company, copycat, macacos, nymphos, panocha, phantom, phytons, postman, pythons, sacaton, shopman, snatchy, stomach, tachyon, tampans, tampons, tympana, tympano, tympans, typhons, yashmac.

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

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Alternative Orthography: MACSYCOPHANT


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

4D 41 43 53 59 43 4F 50 48 41 4E 54

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)

01001101 01000001 01000011 01010011 01011001 01000011 01001111 01010000 01001000 01000001 01001110 01010100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#77 &#65 &#67 &#83 &#89 &#67 &#79 &#80 &#72 &#65 &#78 &#84

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004D 0041 0043 0053 0059 0043 004F 0050 0048 0041 004E 0054

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

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

473537535937495042354854

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INDEX

1. Anagrams
2. Orthography
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