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Mystically

Definition: Mystically

Mystically

Adverb

1. In a mystical manner; "chant mystically".

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

Date "mystically" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1415. (references)


Commercial Usage: Mystically

DomainTitle

Books

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

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Usage Frequency: Mystically

"Mystically" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Mystically" is used about 15 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adverb (general)100%1590,616

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Mystically

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

Chinese 

  

神秘地. (various references)

   

German

  

mystischen, mystisch (mysterious, mystic, mystical). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

ì‹ ë¹„í•˜ê²Œ (hermetically). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ysticallymay

   

Romanian

  

mistic (hidden, mystic, secret). (various references)

   

Thai

  

อย่างมีเวทย์มนต์. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Mystically

Misspellings

"Mystically" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: misticall, mystacalis. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: Mystically

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-i-l-l-m-s-t-y-y"

-2 letters: mystical, mysticly.

-3 letters: misally, miscall, saltily.

-4 letters: amylic, calmly, claims, lacily, lastly, lilacs, maills, mastic, misact, mislay, mystic, scilla, slimly, smalti, stilly, tallis, ticals.

-5 letters: acyls, alist, amity, amyls, calls, calms, claim, clams, clast, clays, clits, cymas, laics, laity, lilac, lilts, limas, litas, lytic, maill, mails, maist, malic, malls, malts, malty, mayst, micas, mills.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-i-l-l-m-s-t-y-y"
 

+2 letters: systemically.

 

+3 letters: gymnastically, symbiotically, symmetrically, sympatrically.

 

+4 letters: asymmetrically, asymptotically, metaphysically, systematically.

 

+5 letters: cataclysmically, cytoplasmically, monosyllabicity, sympathetically, symptomatically, unsymmetrically.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Mystically


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

4D 79 73 74 69 63 61 6C 6C 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)

01001101 01111001 01110011 01110100 01101001 01100011 01100001 01101100 01101100 01111001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#77 &#121 &#115 &#116 &#105 &#99 &#97 &#108 &#108 &#121

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004D 0079 0073 0074 0069 0063 0061 006C 006C 0079

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

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

47918586756967787891

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Usage Frequency
4. Translations: Modern
5. Derivations
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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