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MARGITES

Date "MARGITES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1644. (references)


Specialty Definition: MARGITES

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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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Specialty Definition: Margites

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

The Margites, a comic mock-epic commonly attributed to Homer, is about an idiot named "Margites" (Gk. margos "stupid") who was so dense he didn't know which parent had given birth to him. Though famous in antiquity, there are now only small fragments and quotes of this work, which is written in mixed hexameter and iambic lines.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Margites."

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Anagrams: MARGITES

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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Alternative Orthography: MARGITES


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

4D 41 52 47 49 54 45 53

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 01010010 01000111 01001001 01010100 01000101 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#77 &#65 &#82 &#71 &#73 &#84 &#69 &#83

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)

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

4735524143543953

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