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SUPPLETORY

Definition: SUPPLETORY

SUPPLETORY

Adjective

1. Supplying deficiencies; supplementary; as, a suppletory oath.

Noun

1. That which is to supply what is wanted.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "SUPPLETORY" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1791. (references)

Synonyms within Context: SUPPLETORY

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Addition	Adjective: added; Verb: additional; supplemental, supplementary; suppletory, subjunctive; adjectitious, adscititious, ascititious; additive, extra, accessory.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: SUPPLETORY

English words defined with "SUPPLETORY": Suppletive, Suppletories, Supplyant. (references)

Etymologies containing "SUPPLETORY": Supplyant. (references)

Anagrams: SUPPLETORY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-l-o-p-p-r-s-t-u-y"
	-1 letter: purposely.
	-2 letters: elytrous, outyelps, poulters, prostyle, protyles, purplest, resupply, urostyle.
	-3 letters: elusory, leprosy, leprous, loppers, outyelp, pelorus, petrols, petrous, peyotls, polypus, posture, poulter, poultry, pouters, propels, propyls, proteus, protyle, protyls, pulpers, purples, purpose, pylorus, pyropes, replots, sporule, spouter, spurtle, stopper, stopple, stroppy, suppler, support, toppers, topples, troupes, tupelos.
	-4 letters: erupts, letups, lopers, lopper, loupes.
	Words containing the letters "e-l-o-p-p-r-s-t-u-y"
	+3 letters: precipitously.
	+4 letters: preposterously, presumptuously.
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Alternative Orthography: SUPPLETORY

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

53 55 50 50 4C 45 54 4F 52 59

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)

01010011 01010101 01010000 01010000 01001100 01000101 01010100 01001111 01010010 01011001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#85 &#80 &#80 &#76 &#69 &#84 &#79 &#82 &#89

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0055 0050 0050 004C 0045 0054 004F 0052 0059

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

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

53555050463954495259

INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography

5. Bibliography

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