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THERIACA

Definitions: THERIACA

THERIACA

Noun

1. Treacle; molasses.

2. An ancient composition esteemed efficacious against the effects of poison; especially, a certain compound of sixty-four drugs, prepared, pulverized, and reduced by means of honey to an electuary; -- called also theriaca Andromachi, and Venice treacle.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Crosswords: THERIACA

English words defined with "THERIACA": Theriac. (references)

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Commercial Usage: THERIACA

DomainTitle

Books

  • A Hellenistic Treatise on Poisonous Animals (The Theriaca of Nicander of Colophon: A Contribution to the History of Toxicology) (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Expression: THERIACA

Expression using "THERIACA": theriaca Andromachi. Additional references.

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

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Modern Translations: THERIACA

Language Translations for "THERIACA"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

theriak. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

theriacum. (various references)

   

French

  

thériaque. (various references)

   

German

  

Theriak. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

σκεύασμα Theriaca. (various references)

   

Italian

  

teriaca. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eriacathay

   

Spanish

  

triaca, teriaca. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: THERIACA

Derivations

Words beginning with "THERIACA": theriacal, theriacas. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: THERIACA

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-h-i-r-t"

-1 letter: cithara, hetaira, theriac, trachea.

-2 letters: achier, cahier, carate, chaeta, cither, rachet, thrice.

-3 letters: acari, aceta, aecia, airth, aitch, areca, areic, arhat, atria, carat, caret, carte, cater, ceria, chair, chare, chart, cheat, chert, citer, crate, earth, erica, ethic, hater, heart, irate, ither, ratch, rathe, reach, react, reata, recta, recti, retch, retia, riata, tache, teach.

-5 letters: aah.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-c-e-h-i-r-t"
 

+1 letter: brachiate, theriacal, theriacas.

 

+2 letters: anthracite, aphaeretic, architrave, autarchies, brachiated, brachiates, catarrhine, charitable, theatrical.

 

+3 letters: achromatize, anthracites, architraves, cantharides, catachresis, catarrhines, intrathecal, reattaching, theatricals.

 

+4 letters: achromatized, achromatizes, apothecaries, archegoniate, archetypical, arithmetical, atheoretical, catachrestic, cataphoresis, cataphoretic, characteries, charactering, characterize, chartularies, extrahepatic, handicrafter, hieratically, matriarchate, matriarchies, metaphorical, metathoracic, patriarchate, patriarchies, theatrically, theocratical, uncharitable.

 

+5 letters: amphitheatric, antirheumatic, archaeologist, archegoniates, archimandrite, architectural, arithmetician, authenticator, bacteriophage, bacteriophagy, bathymetrical, cardiopathies, cartographies, characterized, characterizes, charlatanries, chateaubriand, cinematograph, handicrafters, intrathecally, lethargically, matriarchates, metachromatic, nontheatrical, parasynthetic, parenthetical, patriarchates, rheumatically, saccharimeter, straightlaced, theatricalism, theatricality, theatricalize, trisaccharide, trisoctahedra.

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

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Alternative Orthography: THERIACA


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

54 48 45 52 49 41 43 41

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)

01010100 01001000 01000101 01010010 01001001 01000001 01000011 01000001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#72 &#69 &#82 &#73 &#65 &#67 &#65

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 0048 0045 0052 0049 0041 0043 0041

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

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

5442395243353735

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Expressions
5. Translations: Modern
6. Derivations
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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