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POLIXENES

Date "POLIXENES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1602. (references)


Specialty Definition: POLIXENES

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Literature

Polixenes (4 syl.), King of Bohemia, being invited to Sicily by King Leontes, excites unwittingly the jealousy of his friend, because he prolongs his stay at the entreaty of Queen Hermione. Leontes orders Camillo to poison the royal guest, but, instead of doing so, Camillo flees with him to Bohemia. In time Florizel, the son and heir of Polixenes, falls in love with Perdita, the lost daughter of Leontes. Polixenes forbids the match, and the young lovers, under the charge of Camillo, flee to Sicily. Polixenes follows the fugitives, the mystery of Perdita is cleared up, the lovers are married, and the two kings resume their friendship. (shakespeare: Winter's Tale.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Crosswords: POLIXENES

Specialty definitions using "POLIXENES": PerditaWinter's Tale. (references)

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Anagrams: POLIXENES

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-e-i-l-n-o-p-s-x"

-2 letters: epoxies, epsilon, oleines, pensile, peonies, pinoles.

-3 letters: eloins, elopes, enisle, ensile, eosine, exiles, exines, expels, expose, ilexes, insole, leones, lesion, oleine, oleins, opines, oxlips, penile, pensil, peones, pilose, pinole, pixels, poleis, polies, ponies, senile, spinel, spleen, spline.

-4 letters: eloin, elope, enols, eosin, exile, exine, exons, expel, expos, lenes, lenis, lenos, lense, leone, lexes.

 Words containing the letters "e-e-i-l-n-o-p-s-x"
 

+1 letter: xenophiles.

 

+3 letters: exponentials, expressional, nonexplosive, overexplains.

 

+4 letters: explosiveness, nonexplosives.

 

+5 letters: exceptionalism, expressionless.

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

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Alternative Orthography: POLIXENES


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

50 4F 4C 49 58 45 4E 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)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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

01010000 01001111 01001100 01001001 01011000 01000101 01001110 01000101 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 004F 004C 0049 0058 0045 004E 0045 0053

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

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

504946435839483953

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3. Anagrams
4. Orthography
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