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Literature | Zoilos (Latin, Zoilus). The sword of Zoilos. The pen of a critic. Zoilos was a literary Thersites, shrewd, witty, and spiteful. He was nicknamed Homeromastix (Homer's scourge), because he mercilessly assailed the epics of Homer, and called the companions of Ulysses in the island of Circe "weeping porkers" ("choiridia klaionta"). He also flew at Plato, Isocrates, and other high game. "Pendentem volo Zoilum videre." Martial. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: ZOILOS |
| Specialty definitions using "ZOILOS": Homer's Critics. (references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "i-l-o-o-s-z" | |
-1 letter: olios. | |
-2 letters: loos, oils, olio, silo, soil, soli, solo, zoos. | |
-3 letters: lis, loo, oil, sol, zoo. | |
-4 letters: is, li, lo, os, si, so. | |
| Words containing the letters "i-l-o-o-s-z" | |
+2 letters: floozies, zorillos. | |
+3 letters: colonizes, colorizes, hylozoism, hylozoist, snoozling, zoologies, zoologist, zoophiles. | |
+4 letters: aerosolize, apologizes, colonizers, geologizes, heliozoans, hylozoisms, hylozoists, podzolizes, prologizes, solonetzic, zoolatries, zoologists, zoophilies, zoophilous, zymologies. | |
+5 letters: aerosolized, aerosolizes, apologizers, brazilwoods, decolonizes, decolorizes, dolomitizes, homologizes, horizonless, horizontals, hylozoistic, ideologizes, kolkhozniks, lobotomizes, monopolizes, prologuizes, recolonizes, soliloquize, solmization, theologizes. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)5A 4F 49 4C 4F 53 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)--.. --- .. .-.. --- ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01011010 01001111 01001001 01001100 01001111 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)Z O I L O S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)005A 004F 0049 004C 004F 0053 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)604943464953 |
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