ZEUXIS

Date "ZEUXIS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Specialty Definition: ZEUXIS

Domain	Definition
Literature	Zeuxis (2 syl.), a Grecian painter, is said to have painted some grapes so well that the birds came and pecked at them. "Een as poor birds, deceived with painted grapes, Do surfeit by the eye, and pine the maw." Shakespeare: Venus and Adonis. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
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Crosswords: ZEUXIS

Specialty definitions using "ZEUXIS": Death from Strange Causes ♦ King of Painters ♦ Myron. (references)

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Modern Usage: ZEUXIS

Domain	Usage
Clever	Criticism comes easier than craftsmanship. (references; author: Zeuxis)
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Familiar Quotations: ZEUXIS

Author	Quotation
Zeuxis	Criticism comes easier than craftsmanship.
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Usage Frequency: ZEUXIS

"ZEUXIS" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "ZEUXIS" is used about 4 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%	4	175,879

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: ZEUXIS

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
zeuxis	2
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Anagrams: ZEUXIS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-i-s-u-x-z"
	-2 letters: size.
	-3 letters: sei, sex, six, sue, use, xis.
	-4 letters: es, ex, is, si, us, xi, xu.
	Words containing the letters "e-i-s-u-x-z"
	+3 letters: sexualize.
	+4 letters: sexualized, sexualizes, texturizes.
	+5 letters: desexualize, sexualizing.
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