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ZACOCIA

Specialty Definition: ZACOCIA

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Zacocia King of Mozambec. Camoens, in his Lusiad, says that he received Vasco da Gama and his men with great hospitality, believing them to be Mahometans, but the moment he discovered that they were Christians all his kindness turned to the most rancorous hate. He tried to allure them into ambush, but, failing in this, sent to Gama a pilot to conduct the fleet to Mombaze (2 syl.), where the whole party would have been killed or reduced to slavery. This treachery failed also, because Venus drove the fleet in a contrary direction by a storm. The faithless pilot lastly attempted to run the ships upon hidden rocks, but the Nereids came to the rescue, and the pilot threw himself into the sea to escape the anger of the Portuguese adventurer. (Camoens: Lusiad, bks. i. ii.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Anagrams: ZACOCIA

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-c-c-i-o-z"

-2 letters: azoic, cacao.

-3 letters: caca, ciao, coca, zoic.

-4 letters: azo, coz, oca, zoa.

-5 letters: aa, ai.

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

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Alternative Orthography: ZACOCIA


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

5A 41 43 4F 43 49 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)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01011010 01000001 01000011 01001111 01000011 01001001 01000001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

005A 0041 0043 004F 0043 0049 0041

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

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

60353749374335

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