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PURPRESTURE

Definition: PURPRESTURE

PURPRESTURE

Noun

1. Wrongful encroachment upon another's property; esp., any encroachment upon, or inclosure of, that which should be common or public, as highways, rivers, harbors, forts, etc.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Purpresture \Pur*pres"ture\, noun. [Probably corrupted (see Prest) from Old French pourprisure, from pourprendre: compare to late Latin purprestura. Compare to Purprise.]. (Websters 1913)


Crosswords: PURPRESTURE

English words defined with "PURPRESTURE": Pourpresture. (references)

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Rhyming with "PURPRESTURE"

Words rhyming with "PURPRESTURE" (pronounced 'Pur*pres"ture'): Acture, Admixture, Affixture, Anfracture, Aquapuncture, Arboriculture, Attainture, Aventure, Belecture, Cincture, Commixture, Compacture, Composture, Concreture, Confecture, Conjuncture, Connature, Constructure, Contexture, Contracture, Creature, Decocture, Defeature, Dejecture, feature, fixture, Fructure, Galvanopuncture, imposture, intermixture, juncture, Loture, Metallifacture, misadventure, Misaventure, misfeature, Misnurture, mixture, moisture, Multure, Overmoisture, Overpicture, Painture, Paraventure, Parture, Photosculpture, Pisciculture, Pretexture, Pretorture, Projecture. (additional references)

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Anagrams: PURPRESTURE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-e-p-p-r-r-r-s-t-u-u"

-3 letters: purpures, repursue, ruptures.

-4 letters: peruser, prester, purpure, pursuer, reputes, rupture, spurrer, stepper, ureters, usurper.

-5 letters: erupts, perter, peruse, pester, peters, preset, purees, purest, purser, pursue, repute, rester, retuse, rupees, steppe, supper, suture, terser, uppers, upstep, ureter, usurer, uterus.

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

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Alternative Orthography: PURPRESTURE


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

50 55 52 50 52 45 53 54 55 52 45

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 01010101 01010010 01010000 01010010 01000101 01010011 01010100 01010101 01010010 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#85 &#82 &#80 &#82 &#69 &#83 &#84 &#85 &#82 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 0055 0052 0050 0052 0045 0053 0054 0055 0052 0045

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

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

5055525052395354555239

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INDEX

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


  

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