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COMPELLATION

Definition: COMPELLATION

COMPELLATION

Noun

1. Style of address or salutation; an appellation.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Compellation \Com`pel*la"tion\, noun. [Latin expression compellatio, from compellare to accost, from compellere. See Compel.]. (Websters 1913)


Synonyms within Context: COMPELLATION

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

Nomenclature

Style, proper name; praenomen, agnomen, cognomen; patronymic, surname; cognomination; eponym; compellation, description, antonym; empty title, empty name; handle to one's name; namesake.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: COMPELLATION

English words defined with "COMPELLATION": Giantship. (references)

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Derivations & Misspellings: COMPELLATION

Derivations

Words beginning with "COMPELLATION": compellations. (additional references)


Misspellings

"COMPELLATION" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: compulation, congelation. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "COMPELLATION"

Words rhyming with "COMPELLATION" (pronounced 'Com`pel*la"tion'): Abacination, Abaction, Abalienation, Abarticulation, Abbreviation, Abdication, Abduction, Aberration, Abevacuation, Abirritation, Abjection, Abjudication, Abjuration, Ablactation, Ablaqueation, Ablation, Ablegation, Abligurition, Abnegation, Abnodation, Abolition, Abomination, Abortion, Abreaction, Abrenunciation, Abreption, Abrogation, Abruption, Absentation, Absolution, Absorbition, Absorption, Abstention, Abstraction, Absumption, Accentuation, Acceptation, Acceptilation, Acception, Acclimatation, Acclimation, Acclimatization, Accombination, Accommodation, Accreditation, Accrementition, Accretion, Accubation, Accusation, Acervation. (additional references)

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Anagrams: COMPELLATION

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-i-l-l-m-n-o-o-p-t"

-2 letters: completion.

-3 letters: collation, collimate, complaint, compliant, emotional, melanotic, polemical, policeman, pollinate.

-4 letters: antipole, calliope, cliental, coinmate, colonial, complain, compleat, compline, conepatl, cotillon, ecotonal, leptonic, localite, location, manciple, metallic, motional, optional, palomino, pentomic, picomole, platonic, plotline, poetical, ptomaine, teocalli.

-5 letters: aconite, ailment, aliment, aloetic, amniote, amotion, apnoeic, apomict, calomel, campion, capelin, capitol, caption, centimo, climate.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-e-i-l-l-m-n-o-o-p-t"
 

+1 letter: compellations.

 

+4 letters: onomatopoeically.

 

+5 letters: micropaleontology, morphogenetically, onomatopoetically, photomechanically.

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

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Alternative Orthography: COMPELLATION


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

43 4F 4D 50 45 4C 4C 41 54 49 4F 4E

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)

01000011 01001111 01001101 01010000 01000101 01001100 01001100 01000001 01010100 01001001 01001111 01001110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#79 &#77 &#80 &#69 &#76 &#76 &#65 &#84 &#73 &#79 &#78

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 004F 004D 0050 0045 004C 004C 0041 0054 0049 004F 004E

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

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

374947503946463554434948

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Derivations
4. Rhymes
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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