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Date "MARGITES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1644. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Margites The first dunce whose name has been transmitted to fame. His rivals are Codrus and Flecknoe. "Margites was the name ... whom Antiquity recordeth to have been dunce the first."- Pope Dunciad (Martinus Scriblcrus). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: magister, migrates, ragtimes, sterigma. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-g-i-m-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: aigrets, gaiters, gamiest, gisarme, imagers, imarets, maestri, migrate, mirages, misrate, ragtime, seagirt, sigmate, smartie, stagier, triages. | |
-2 letters: ageism, ageist, aigret, aimers, airest, armets, armies, gaiter, gamers, gamest, gamier, gaster, grates, gratis, greats, grimes, imager, images, imaret, maigre, marges, master, maters, matres, merits, mirage, misate, miseat, mister, miters, mitres, ramets, ramies, remits, retags. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-g-i-m-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: emigrants, emigrates, magisters, mastering, sterigmas, streaming. | |
+2 letters: centigrams, germinates, hermitages, immigrates, magistrate, margarites, marginates, marketings, misgrafted, morganites, nightmares, restamping, ringmaster, smaragdite, smartening, smattering, stammering, steamering, sterigmata, streamings. | |
+3 letters: abridgments, afterimages, charmingest, dogmatizers, emigrations, ergotamines, gangsterism, garnishment, gravimeters, impregnants, impregnates, magisterial, magisterium, magistrates, magnetizers, marguerites, martingales, misaltering, miscreating, misrelating, mistreating, prestamping, quagmiriest, regimentals, remastering, ringmasters, smaragdites, smatterings, trigeminals. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 41 52 47 49 54 45 53 |
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-- .- .-. --. .. - . ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01000001 01010010 01000111 01001001 01010100 01000101 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M A R G I T E S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 0041 0052 0047 0049 0054 0045 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)4735524143543953 |
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