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Aoristic

Definition: Aoristic

Aoristic

Adjective

1. (grammar) of or relating to the aorist tense.

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

Etymology: Aoristic \A`o*ris"tic\, adjective. [from Greek expression 'aoristiko`s.]. (Websters 1913)


Synonyms within Context: Aoristic

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

Course

Adjective: elapsing; Verb: aoristic; progressive. -

The Present Time

Adjective: aoristic; indefinite.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Aoristic

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

aoristic

8
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Aoristic

Derivations

Words beginning with "aoristic": aoristically. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Aoristic" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Aprista, Apristas, aristic, augitic, aurtistic, euristic, exorcistic, faunistic, Marostica, Oalistach, parodistic. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "Aoristic"

Words rhyming with "aoristic" (pronounced 'A`o*ris"tic'): Absolutistic, Acatalectic, Acataleptic, Acephalocystic, Acetic, Acherontic, Acroteleutic, Adiaphoristic, Agrestic, Albinistic, Altruistic, Amnestic, Amphiblastic, Amyloplastic, Anacamptic, Anacathartic, Anachronistic, Anaclastic, Anaglyptic, Analectic, Analeptic, Anamnestic, Anapestic, Anaplastic, Anapodeictic, Anastaltic, Anatreptic, Animistic, Annalistic, Antapoplectic, Antarctic, Antephialtic, Antepileptic, Anthelmintic, Antiapoplectic, Anticlastic, Antiephialtic, Antiepileptic, Antigalastic, Antiorgastic, Antiperistaltic, Antiplastic, Antiscorbutic, Antispastic, Antonomastic, Antorgastic, Aortic, Aphlogistic, Aphotic, Aplastic. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Aoristic

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-i-i-o-r-s-t"

-1 letter: satiric, soritic.

-2 letters: actors, aorist, aortic, ariosi, aristo, castor, coatis, costar, crista, iatric, racist, ratios, satori, scoria, scotia, scrota, tarocs, triacs.

-3 letters: actor, airts, ascot, astir, carts, coast, coati, coats, coirs, coria, costa, iotas, orcas, ostia, ratio, ratos, riots, roast, rotas, rotis, scart, sitar, stair, stoai, stoic, stria, tacos, taroc, taros, tarsi, tiros.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-i-i-o-r-s-t"
 

+1 letter: ahistoric, amoristic, orgiastic, psoriatic, victorias.

 

+2 letters: acquisitor, aphoristic, ascription, atrocities, camorristi, clostridia, historical, indicators, moralistic, morticians, organicist, parodistic, pictorials, psoriatics, scriptoria, varicosity, voracities.

 

+3 letters: acquisitors, ahistorical, anisotropic, ascriptions, carotinoids, certioraris, chrismation, cirrostrati, clostridial, creationism, creationist, diastrophic, distraction, formalistic, harmonicist, infarctions, informatics, infractions, jargonistic, miscreation, myocarditis, nonartistic, organicists, ostracising, ostracizing, piscatorial, recitations, recitativos, romanticise, romanticism, romanticist, rustication, scissortail, staurolitic, thiouracils, timocracies, urtications, vindicators.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Aoristic


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

41 6F 72 69 73 74 69 63

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 01101111 01110010 01101001 01110011 01110100 01101001 01100011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#111 &#114 &#105 &#115 &#116 &#105 &#99

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 006F 0072 0069 0073 0074 0069 0063

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

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

3581847585867569

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Expressions: Internet
3. Derivations
4. Rhymes
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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