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ORVIETAN

Definition: ORVIETAN

ORVIETAN

Noun

1. A kind of antidote for poisons; a counter poison formerly in vogue.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Specialty Definitions: ORVIETAN

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Literature

Orvietan (3 syl.) or Venice treacle, once believed to be a sovereign remedy against poison. From Orvieto, a city of Italy, where it is said to have been first used.
"With these drugs will I, this very day, compound the true orvietan."- Sir Walter Scott: Kenilworth, chap. xiii. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Modern Translations: ORVIETAN

Language Translations for "ORVIETAN"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Ukranian 

  

протиотрута (antidote, antipoison, antitoxin). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "ORVIETAN"

Words rhyming with "ORVIETAN" (pronounced 'Or`vi*e"tan'): Augustan, Avestan, Cretan, harmattan, kaftan, Mercaptan, Moutan, Nehushtan, partan, Quintan, Rambutan, SATAN, Spartan, sultan, titan. (additional references)

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Anagrams: ORVIETAN

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-i-n-o-r-t-v"

-2 letters: aroint, atoner, invert, naiver, native, norite, orient, ornate, ratine, ration, ravine, renvoi, retain, retina, tavern, tonier, vainer, viator.

-3 letters: aiver, antre, atone, avert, avion, entia, envoi, inert, inter, intro, invar, irate, irone, naevi, naive, niter, nitre, nitro, noria, noter, novae, oaten, oater, orate, ovate, overt, ovine, ratio, raven, ravin, retia, riant, riven.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-i-n-o-r-t-v"
 

+1 letter: nervation, normative, overtrain, vernation.

 

+2 letters: derivation, enervation, invigorate, nervations, overacting, overaction, overeating, overhating, overrating, overstrain, overtaking, overtaxing, overtrains, renovating, renovation, renovative, revelation, revocation, sovranties, unfavorite, vacationer, vanitories, veneration, ventilator, vernations, vociferant.

 

+3 letters: antipoverty, contractive, contrastive, contrivance, countervail, denervation, depravation, deprivation, derivations, earthmoving, enervations, enteroviral, evaporating, evaporation, exonerative, informative, innervation, inobservant, inoperative, intravenous, inventorial, invigorated, invigorates, involucrate, neuroactive, noncreative, nonreactive, nonrelative, normatively, observation, originative, overactions, overanxiety, overbeating, overcasting, overcaution, overheating, overinflate, oversalting, overstating, overstaying, overstrains, overtalking, overtasking, overtrading, overtrained, personative, renovations, reservation, revaluation, revelations, revocations, vacationers, variegation, venerations, ventilators, ventilatory, voluntaries.

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

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Alternative Orthography: ORVIETAN


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

4F 52 56 49 45 54 41 4E

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)

01001111 01010010 01010110 01001001 01000101 01010100 01000001 01001110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#79 &#82 &#86 &#73 &#69 &#84 &#65 &#78

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004F 0052 0056 0049 0045 0054 0041 004E

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

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

4952564339543548

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Translations: Modern
3. Rhymes
4. Anagrams 		5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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