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AMERCED

Definition: AMERCED

AMERCED

Imperative & past participle

1. Of Amerce

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "AMERCED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1842. (references)


Crosswords: AMERCED

English words defined with "AMERCED": Amerceable. (references)
Etymologies containing "AMERCED": Amerce. (references)

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Historic Usage: AMERCED

AuthorDateQuotation

Magna Carta

1215

Earls and barons shall not be amerced except through their peers, and only in accordance with the degree of the offense. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: AMERCED

"AMERCED" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 75.00% of the time. "AMERCED" is used about 4 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
Lexical Verb (past participle)75%3202,518
Lexical Verb (past tense)25%1339,140
                    Total100.00%4N/A

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

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Modern Translations: AMERCED

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

Manx

  

oolit (determined, estimated, fined). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

amerceday

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: AMERCED

Misspellings

"AMERCED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: alerce, amache, Amecea, ameree, amerle, amerue, ammerce, Amresco, Azeredo. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: AMERCED

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: creamed, racemed.

Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-e-m-r"

-1 letter: amerce, decare, raceme, reamed, remade.

-2 letters: acred, adeem, ameer, arced, armed, cadre, cared, cedar, ceder, cered, cream, creed, creme, derma, dream, eared, edema, maced, macer, madre, merde, raced, ramee.

-3 letters: aced, acme, acre, cade, came, card, care, cede, cere, cram, dace, dame, dare, dear, deem, deer, deme, dere, derm, dram, dree, mace, made.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-d-e-e-m-r"
 

+1 letter: cambered, cremated, demarche, embraced, medicare, screamed.

 

+2 letters: becharmed, chambered, chamfered, clambered, decameter, declaimer, demarcate, demarches, macerated, marcelled, medicares, racemized, reclaimed, rematched, scampered.

 

+3 letters: acidimeter, beclamored, bedchamber, coenamored, commandeer, decameters, decametric, decemviral, declaimers, dekametric, demarcated, demarcates, descramble, ectodermal, imprecated, merchanted, mercurated, miscreated, premedical, semisacred.

 

+4 letters: acidimeters, aeromedical, bedchambers, camaraderie, caramelised, caramelized, checkmarked, commandeers, comraderies, decemvirate, decremental, democracies, democratize, descrambled, descrambler, descrambles, determinacy, embarcadero, mediatrices, merchandise, merchandize, microreader, overclaimed, overcrammed, overmatched, predicament, scleroderma, traducement, unreclaimed.

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

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Alternative Orthography: AMERCED


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

41 4D 45 52 43 45 44

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)

01000001 01001101 01000101 01010010 01000011 01000101 01000100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#77 &#69 &#82 &#67 &#69 &#68

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 004D 0045 0052 0043 0045 0044

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

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

35473952373938

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Quotations: Historic
4. Usage Frequency
5. Translations: Modern
6. Derivations
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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