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Bewitchery

Definition: Bewitchery

Bewitchery

Noun

1. Magnetic personal charm.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

 

Synonyms: Bewitchery

Synonyms: animal magnetism (n), beguilement (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Bewitchery

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Motive

Inducement, consideration; attraction; loadstone; magnet, magnetism, magnetic force; allectation, allective; temptation, enticement, agacerie, allurement, witchery; bewitchment, bewitchery; charm; spell; fascination, blandishment, cajolery; seduction, seducement; honeyed words, voice of the tempter, song of the Sirens forbidden fruit, golden apple.

Sorcery

Noun: sorcery; occult art, occult sciences; magic, the black art, necromancy, theurgy, thaumaturgy; demonology, demonomy, demonship; diablerie, bedevilment; witchcraft, witchery; glamor; fetishism, fetichism, feticism; ghost dance, hoodoo; obi, obiism; voodoo, voodooism; Shamanism, vampirism; conjuration; bewitchery, exorcism, enchantment, mysticism, second sight, mesmerism, animal magnetism; od force, odylic force; electrobiology, clairvoyance; spiritualism, spirit rapping, table turning.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Modern Translations: Bewitchery

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

Manx

  

buitcherys. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ewitcherybay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "Bewitchery"

Words rhyming with "bewitchery" (pronounced 'Be*witch"er*y'): Acceleratory, Antislavery, Apery, Archery, Ashery, Asseveratory, Averpenny, Babery, Baboonery, Bakery, Barkery, Belligerently, bindery, Bleachery, Bloomery, Boilery, botcherly, botchery, Branchery, Bravery, Brewery, Bribery, Broidery, Buffoonery, Butcherly, Butchery, Cajolery, Chafery, Chicanery, Cholericly, Cinerary, Cleverly, Clouterly, Clownery, Coalery, Cocoonery, Collaterally, Commandery, Congeneracy, Considerably, Consideringly, Cookery, Covertly, Creamery, Crockery, Cutchery, Deanery, Debauchery, Degeneracy, Degenerately. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Bewitchery

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-c-e-e-h-i-r-t-w-y"

-2 letters: bitchery, witchery.

-3 letters: bewitch, chewier, erethic, etheric, hebetic, heretic, techier, terebic, thereby, thewier, whereby.

-4 letters: beechy, bitchy, breech, cerite, cheery, cherty, chewer, cither, either, etcher, hereby, rechew, recite, reechy, ribeye, techie, terbic, thrice, tierce, wether, whiter, whitey, witchy, wither, wretch, writhe.

-5 letters: beech, beery, beret, berth, birch, birth, bitch, biter, cheer, chert, chewy, citer.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Bewitchery


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

42 65 77 69 74 63 68 65 72 79

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)

01000010 01100101 01110111 01101001 01110100 01100011 01101000 01100101 01110010 01111001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#101 &#119 &#105 &#116 &#99 &#104 &#101 &#114 &#121

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0065 0077 0069 0074 0063 0068 0065 0072 0079

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

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

36718975866974718491

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Translations: Modern
4. Rhymes
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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