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MANICHEISM

Definition: MANICHEISM

MANICHEISM

Noun

1. The doctrines taught, or system of principles maintained, by the Manichaeans.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "MANICHEISM" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1902. (references)



Specialty Definitions: MANICHEISM

DomainDefinitions

Satire

MANICHEISM, n. The ancient Persian doctrine of an incessant warfare between Good and Evil. When Good gave up the fight the Persians joined the victorious Opposition. Source: Devil's Dictionary.

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

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Synonyms within Context: MANICHEISM

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

Satan

Diabolism; devilism, devilship; diabolology; satanism, devil worship; manicheism; the cloven foot.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: MANICHEISM

English words defined with "MANICHEISM": DitheismManichaeismPriscillianist. (references)

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: MANICHEISM

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

manicheism

2
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Anagrams: MANICHEISM

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-h-i-i-m-m-n-s"

-1 letter: mechanism.

-2 letters: chammies, ischemia, machines, minicams.

-3 letters: ammines, amnesic, animism, chaines, chamise, chemism, chiasmi, cinemas, haemins, machine, maihems, manches, menisci, miasmic, minicam, misname.

-4 letters: amices, amines, aminic, ammine, anemic, animes, animis, anisic, ashmen, camise, casein, casini, chaine, chains, chaise, chiasm, chimes, chinas, chines, cinema, echini, encash, haemic, haemin, hances, hemins, iceman, imines, immane, immesh, immies, incase, inches, incise, inmesh, inseam, ischia, maches, maihem, mamies, manche, manics, mashie, mensch, mesian, miches, mimics, minces, minima, minims, minish, misaim, naches, niches, sachem, saimin, samech, schema, semina, simian.

-5 letters: aches, acini, acmes, acnes, amens, amice, amici, amies, amine, amins, amnic, anime, animi, anise, ashen, cains, cames, canes, chain, chams, chase, chasm, chias, chime, china, chine, chins, cines, haems, hames, hance, hanse, hemic, hemin, imams, imine, maces, mache, machs, maims, mains, mamie, manes, manic, manse, means, mensa, mesic, miasm, micas, miche, miens, mimes, mimic, minae, minas, mince, mines, minim, minis, names, nemas, niche, nisei, saice, scena, shame, shine, since.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-e-h-i-i-m-m-n-s"
 

+4 letters: mathematicians.

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

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Alternative Orthography: MANICHEISM


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

4D 41 4E 49 43 48 45 49 53 4D

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 01001110 01001001 01000011 01001000 01000101 01001001 01010011 01001101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#77 &#65 &#78 &#73 &#67 &#72 &#69 &#73 &#83 &#77

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004D 0041 004E 0049 0043 0048 0045 0049 0053 004D

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

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

47354843374239435347

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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