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RANSOMING

Definition: RANSOMING

RANSOMING

Personal pronoun & verb & noun

1. Of Ransom

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "RANSOMING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1608. (references)

Synonyms by domain: kidnap and ransom insurance (insurance), ransom insurance, to hold s.o.to ransom (law).

Commercial Usage: RANSOMING

Domain	Title
Books	Ransoming Hector (reference) Ransoming Captives in Crusader Spain: The Order of Merced on the Christian-Islamic Frontier (Middle Ages Series) (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Historic Usage: RANSOMING

Author	Date	Quotation
Magna Carta	1215	No scutage not aid shall be imposed on our kingdom, unless by common counsel of our kingdom, except for ransoming our person, for making our eldest son a knight, and for once marrying our eldest daughter; and for these there shall not be levied more than a reasonable aid. (reference)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Modern Translations: RANSOMING

Language		Translations for "RANSOMING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
German		freikaufend, auslösend (releasing, triggering). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		身請け (redeeming), 身受け (redeeming). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		みうけ (redeeming). (various references)

Pig Latin		ansomingray.(various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Ancestral Language Translations: RANSOMING

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	redemptio, redemptione, redemptionem, redemptionis. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Anagrams: RANSOMING

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-g-i-m-n-n-o-r-s"
	-1 letter: masoning, mornings, organism.
	-2 letters: amnions, armings, isogram, mansion, margins, mignons, moaning, morgans, morning, onanism, origans, roaming, signora, snaring, snoring, soaring, sorning.
	-3 letters: amigos, amnion, amnios, anions, argons, arming, arsino, gamins, girons, grains, grison, groans, groins, imagos, inarms, mangos, manors, margin, mignon, minors, morgan, naming, nanism, nasion, nomina, norias, nosing, oaring, ogrism, onagri, orangs, organs, orgasm, origan, ramson, ransom, rasing, romans, rosing, saning, sarong, signor, soring.
	-4 letters: agios, agism, agons, airns, amigo, amino, amins, amirs, amnio, among, anion, argon, arson, gains, gamin, garni, girns, giron, giros, gismo, gnars, gonia, grain, grams, grans, grins, groan, groin, imago, inarm, irons, mains, mairs, mango, manor, manos, mason, minas, minor, moans, moira, monas, moras, morns, naris, noirs, nomas, nonas, noria, noris, norms, ogams, orang, organ, ornis, ragis, rains, ranis, rings, roams, roans, roman, rosin, sarin, sigma, simar, sonar.
	-5 letters: agin, agio, agon, aims, ains, airn, airs, amin, amir, amis, anis, anon, arms, gain, gams, gars, gins, girn, giro, gnar, goas, gram, gran, grim, grin, inns, inro, ions, iron, magi, mags, main, mair, mano, mans, mars, migs, mina, mirs, miso, moan, moas, mogs, mons, mora, morn, mors, nags, nans, naoi, naos, nims, nogs, noir, noma, noms, nona, nori, norm, oars, ogam, osar, ragi, rags, rain, rami, rams, rang, rani, rias, rigs, rims, ring, rins, roam, roan, roms, sago, sain, sang, sari, sign, sima, sing, smog, snag, snog, soar, soma, song, sora, sori, sorn.
	Words containing the letters "a-g-i-m-n-n-o-r-s"
	+1 letter: omniranges, romanising.
	+2 letters: harmonising, nonmigrants, nonorgasmic, normalising.
	+3 letters: barnstorming, centimorgans, germinations, gormandising, marathonings, marginations, monsignorial, transforming.
	+4 letters: bildungsroman, brainstorming, demonstrating, emarginations, fashionmonger, impersonating, impregnations, nonimmigrants, remonstrating, romanticising, trampolinings, warmongerings.
	+5 letters: aggiornamentos, argumentations, bildungsromane, bildungsromans, brainstormings, disharmonizing, fashionmongers, ferromagnesian, fragmentations, germanizations, regimentations, retransforming, transmigration.
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Alternative Orthography: RANSOMING

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

52 41 4E 53 4F 4D 49 4E 47

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)

01010010 01000001 01001110 01010011 01001111 01001101 01001001 01001110 01000111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#82 &#65 &#78 &#83 &#79 &#77 &#73 &#78 &#71

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0052 0041 004E 0053 004F 004D 0049 004E 0047

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

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

523548534947434841

INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Quotations: Historic
4. Translations: Modern

5. Translations: Ancient
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography

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