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OSTRACIS'M

Specialty Definition: OSTRACIS'M

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Ostracis'm Oyster-shelling, black-balling, or expelling. Clisthenes gave the people of Attica the power of removing from the state, without making a definite charge, any leader of the people likely to subvert the government. Each citizen wrote his vote on an earthen. ware table (ostracon), whence the term. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Anagrams: OSTRACIS'M

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "'-a-c-i-m-o-r-s-s-t"

-1 letter: acrotisms, ostracism.

-2 letters: acrotism, amorists, massicot.

-3 letters: amorist, aorists, aristos, atomics, castors, cosmist, costars, mascots, mastics, misacts, miscast, missort, mosaics, osmatic, racisms, racists, sacrist, satoris, scotias, sitcoms, somatic, tsarism.

-4 letters: across, actors, aorist, aortic, aristo, ascots, assort, atomic, caroms, castor, coasts, coatis, costar, crasis, crissa, crista, macros, maists, mascot, mastic, micros, misact, morass, mosaic.

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

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Alternative Orthography: OSTRACIS'M


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

4F 53 54 52 41 43 49 53 27 4D

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001111 01010011 01010100 01010010 01000001 01000011 01001001 01010011 00100111 01001101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#79 &#83 &#84 &#82 &#65 &#67 &#73 &#83 &#39 &#77

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004F 0053 0054 0052 0041 0043 0049 0053 0027 004D

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

4953545235374353947

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