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PROTREPTICAL

Definition: PROTREPTICAL

PROTREPTICAL

Adjective

1. Adapted to persuade; hortatory; persuasive.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Protreptical \Pro*trep"tic*al\, adjective. [from Greek expression, from to turn forward, to urge on.]. (Websters 1913)


Synonyms within Context: PROTREPTICAL

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Motive

Adjective: impulsive, motive; suasive, suasory, persuasive, persuasory, hortative, hortatory; protreptical; inviting, tempting; Verb: suasive, suasory; seductive, attractive; fascinating; (pleasing); provocative; (exciting).

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Rhyming with "PROTREPTICAL"

Words rhyming with "PROTREPTICAL" (pronounced 'Pro*trep"tic*al'): Abactinal, Abbatial, Abbatical, Abdal, Aberrational, Abettal, Abhal, Abhominal, Abiological, Abnormal, Aboral, Abortional, Abranchial, Absinthial, Abstractional, Abuttal, Abysmal, Abyssal, Academial, Accentual, Accessional, Accessorial, Accipitral, Accrementitial, Accrual, Accusal, Accusatival, Accusatorial, Acephal, Acerval, Acetal, Achenial, Acnodal, Aconital, Acoustical, Acquittal, Acranial, Acritical, Acromial, Acropetal, Acroterial, Actinal, Actinozoal, Actuarial, Adagial, Adambulacral, Adaptorial, Adenological, Adjectional, Adjectival. (additional references)

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Anagrams: PROTREPTICAL

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-i-l-o-p-p-r-r-t-t"

-1 letter: protractile.

-2 letters: protreptic, replicator.

-3 letters: captopril, cartopper, literator, precoital, proleptic, rectorial.

-4 letters: capriole, carriole, crappier, crippler, erotical, leprotic, loricate, oilpaper, operatic, oppilate, paltrier, particle, pectoral, pericarp, petiolar, petrolic, plottier, poetical, portlier, portrait, prattler, prelatic, pretrial, priorate, protatic, protract, retailor, retroact, tractile, tropical.

-5 letters: airport, aloetic, applier, apricot, aprotic, article, caliper, calorie, calotte, caltrop, capitol, cariole.

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

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Alternative Orthography: PROTREPTICAL


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

50 52 4F 54 52 45 50 54 49 43 41 4C

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 01010010 01001111 01010100 01010010 01000101 01010000 01010100 01001001 01000011 01000001 01001100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#82 &#79 &#84 &#82 &#69 &#80 &#84 &#73 &#67 &#65 &#76

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 0052 004F 0054 0052 0045 0050 0054 0049 0043 0041 004C

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

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

505249545239505443373546

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Rhymes
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography
5. Bibliography


  

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