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Date "ROSCIUS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1591. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Roscius A first-rate actor; so called from the Roman Roscius, unrivalled for his grace of action, melody of voice, conception of character, and delivery. He was paid thirty pounds a day for acting; Pliny says four thousand a year, and Cicero says five thousand. "What scene of death hath Roscius now to act?" Shakespeare: 3 Henry VI., v. 6. Another Roscius. So Camden terms Richard Burbage (1566-1619). The British Roscius. Thomas Betterton, of whom Cibber says, "He alone was born to speak what only Shakespeare knew to write." (1635-1710). David Garrick (1716-1779). The Roscius of France. Michel Boyron, generally called Baron. (1653-1729.) The Young Roscius. William Henry West Betty, who in fifty-six nights realised 34,000. (Died 1874, aged 84.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
The Drama | Actor, thespian, player; method actor; stage player, strolling player; stager, performer; mime, mimer; artists; comedian, tragedian; tragedienne, Roscius; star, movie star, star of stage and screen, superstar, idol, sex symbol; supporting actor, supporting cast; ham, hamfatter; masker. pantomimist, clown harlequin, buffo, buffoon, farceur, grimacer, pantaloon, columbine; punchinello; pulcinello, pulcinella; extra, bit-player, walk-on role, cameo appearance; mute, figurante, general utility; super, supernumerary. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | John Barrymore, or, Reluctant Roscius. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "ROSCIUS" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "ROSCIUS" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 100% | 3 | 202,518 |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-i-o-r-s-s-u" | |
-1 letter: curios, scours. | |
-2 letters: coirs, cross, curio, cusso, risus, scour, sorus, sours. | |
-3 letters: coir, cors, coss, cris, crus, curs, cuss, orcs, ours, rocs, sics, sirs, sori, sour, sous, sris, uric. | |
-4 letters: cis, cor, cos, cur, orc, ors, our, roc, sic, sir, sis, sos, sou, sri. | |
-5 letters: is, or, os, si, so, us. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-i-o-r-s-s-u" | |
+1 letter: scarious. | |
+2 letters: coinsures, coursings, cuspidors, discourse, ossicular, scirrhous, scourings, sericeous, succories. | |
+3 letters: censorious, chorussing, coinsurers, commissure, costumiers, courtesies, courtships, courtsides, cousinries, curiousest, disclosure, discoursed, discourser, discourses, excursions, inclosures, incursions, microbuses, ocularists, percussion, preciouses, reclusions, recursions, scurrilous, subtropics, suctorians, sudorifics, supercoils, supersonic, uncrossing, uroscopies. | |
+4 letters: acquisitors, brucellosis, commissural, commissures, connoisseur, consortiums, consumerism, consumerist, costumeries, courtliness, curiosities, curiousness, cursoriness, customizers, disclosures, discounters, discourages, discoursers, discoursing, discourtesy, echoviruses, ecotourisms, ecotourists, glycosurias, grouchiness, instructors, isochronous, microbursts, microbusses, minicourses, misconstrue, obscurities, outcrossing, percussions, perspicuous, piscivorous, preclusions, promiscuous, prosceniums, prosciuttos, rediscounts, refocussing, rusticators, scoriaceous, scroungiest, scrumptious, supermicros, supersonics, supertonics, surjections, surrogacies, ultrasonics. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 4F 53 43 49 55 53 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-. --- ... -.-. .. ..- ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01001111 01010011 01000011 01001001 01010101 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R O S C I U S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 004F 0053 0043 0049 0055 0053 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)52495337435553 |
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