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Maledict

Definitions: Maledict

Maledict

Adjective

1. Under a curse.

Verb

1. Wish harm upon; put a curse on; "The bad witch cursed the child".

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

Etymology: Maledict \Mal"e*dict\, adjective. [Latin expression maledictus, past participle of maledicere.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Maledict

Synonyms: accursed (adj), accurst (adj), anathemize (v), bedamn (v), beshrew (v), curse (v), damn (v), imprecate (v). (additional references)
Antonym: bless (v). (additional references)

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Modern Translations: Maledict

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

Pig Latin

  

aledictmay.(various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Maledict

Derivations

Words beginning with "maledict": maledicted, maledicting, malediction, maledictions, maledictory, maledicts. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Maledict" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: maledetta, Maledetto, Maledicta, Malefijt, Malevitch, Marendic, Maslenica, Mellerick, Miletich, modelica, Moledat, Nalevich. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "Maledict"

Words rhyming with "maledict" (pronounced 'Mal"e*dict'): Edict, Endict, indict, Unpredict, Verdict. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Maledict

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-i-l-m-t"

-1 letter: citadel, claimed, climate, decimal, declaim, deltaic, dialect, edictal, medical, metical.

-2 letters: atelic, calmed, camlet, delict, deltic, detail, dilate, macled, mailed, malice, malted, medial, milted, tailed, talced.

-3 letters: acted, admit, ailed, aimed, alcid, amice, amide, cadet, camel, cited, clade, claim, cleat, clime, dealt, decal, delta, demit, dicta, eclat, edict, email, ideal, ileac, laced, lamed, lated, limed, maced, macle, maile, malic, mated, medal, media, medic, melic, metal, tamed, telia, telic, tical, tidal, tilde, tiled, timed.

-4 letters: aced, acid, acme, adit, aide, alec, alit, alme, amid, amie, cade, cadi, caid, calm, came, cate, cedi, ceil, celt, cite, clad, clam, clit, dace, dale, dame, date, deal, deil, deli, delt, dial, dice, diel, diet, dime, dita, dite, edit, emic, emit, etic, iced, idea, idem, idle, ilea, item, lace, lade, laic, laid, lame, late, lati, lead, lice, lied, lima, lime, lite, mace, made, maid, mail, male, malt, mate, mead, meal, meat, meld, melt, meta, mica, mice, mild, mile, milt, mite, tace, tael, tail, talc, tale, tali, tame, teal, team, tela, tide, tied, tile, time.

-5 letters: ace, act, aid, ail, aim, ait, ale, alt, ami, ate, cad, cam, cat, cel, dal, dam, del, die, dim, dit, eat, eld, elm, eta, ice, lac, lad, lam, lat, lea, led, lei, let, lid, lie, lit, mac, mad, mae, mat, med, mel, met, mid, mil, tad, tae, tam, tea, ted, tel, tic, tie, til.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-d-e-i-l-m-t"
 

+1 letter: maledicts.

 

+2 letters: acclimated, collimated, culminated, dilemmatic, implicated, maledicted, methodical, mislocated.

 

+3 letters: calumniated, complicated, condimental, declamation, diametrical, domiciliate, maledicting, malediction, maledictory, multicoated, nematicidal, nematocidal, quitclaimed, simulcasted, umbilicated.

 

+4 letters: acclimatised, acclimatized, anecdotalism, declamations, dermatologic, dilatometric, displacement, domestically, domiciliated, domiciliates, immethodical, machicolated, maledictions, matriculated, melodramatic, methodically, misallocated, miscataloged, multifaceted, multitracked, unacclimated, vermiculated.

 

+5 letters: acetazolamide, anecdotalisms, complicatedly, credentialism, diametrically, displacements, documentalist, documentarily, endolymphatic, malfunctioned, melodramatics, miscalculated, multibranched, sacerdotalism, uncomplicated.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Maledict


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

4D 61 6C 65 64 69 63 74

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)

01001101 01100001 01101100 01100101 01100100 01101001 01100011 01110100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#77 &#97 &#108 &#101 &#100 &#105 &#99 &#116

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004D 0061 006C 0065 0064 0069 0063 0074

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

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

4767787170756986

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INDEX

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


  

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