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PERIPHRASTICALLY

Definition: PERIPHRASTICALLY

PERIPHRASTICALLY

Adverb

1. With circumlocution.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "PERIPHRASTICALLY" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1791. (references)


Expression: PERIPHRASTICALLY

Expression using "PERIPHRASTICALLY": express periphrastically. Additional references.

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

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Modern Translations: PERIPHRASTICALLY

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

Czech

  

opsat (circumscribe, copy, copy out, express periphrastically, transcribe). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

περιφραστικώσ. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eriphrasticallypay

   

Romanian

  

perifrastic (periphrastic). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "PERIPHRASTICALLY"

Words rhyming with "PERIPHRASTICALLY" (pronounced 'Per`i*phras"tic*al*ly'): Aerially, Agamically, Agedly, Aggravatingly, Aggregately, Agilely, Agitatedly, Allopathically, Allowably, Allowedly, Allusively, Angelically, Apparently, Appearingly, Appellatively, Aptly, Arbitrarily, Archetypally, Archly, Arcuately, Ardently, Arduously, Argutely, Arithmetically, Arrantly, Arrogantly, Artfully, Articularly, Articulately, Artificially, Artlessly, Artly, Asexually, Ashamedly, ASSEMBLY, Assistantly, Assumably, Assumedly, Assuredly, Astatically, Astonishedly, Astringently, Atmospherically, Atomically, Attemperly, Attently, Attributively, Audaciously, Audibly, Augustly. (additional references)

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Anagrams: PERIPHRASTICALLY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-h-i-i-l-l-p-p-r-r-s-t-y"

-2 letters: hyperparasitic.

-4 letters: caterpillars, hieratically, hyperplastic, patriarchies, periphrastic, seraphically.

-5 letters: aphetically, aseptically, capillaries, capillarity, caterpillar, eristically, erratically, hyperplasia, ipsilateral, participles, piratically, satirically, spherically.

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

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Alternative Orthography: PERIPHRASTICALLY


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

50 45 52 49 50 48 52 41 53 54 49 43 41 4C 4C 59

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)

01010000 01000101 01010010 01001001 01010000 01001000 01010010 01000001 01010011 01010100 01001001 01000011 01000001 01001100 01001100 01011001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#69 &#82 &#73 &#80 &#72 &#82 &#65 &#83 &#84 &#73 &#67 &#65 &#76 &#76 &#89

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 0045 0052 0049 0050 0048 0052 0041 0053 0054 0049 0043 0041 004C 004C 0059

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

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

50395243504252355354433735464659

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INDEX

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


  

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