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PRIGIDITY

Definition: PRIGIDITY

PRIGIDITY

Noun

1. Want of heat or vigor; as, the frigidity of old age.

2. Want of ardor, animation, vivacity, etc.; coldness of affection or of manner; dullness; stiffness and formality; as, frigidity of a reception, of a bow, etc.

3. The condition or quality of being frigid; coldness; want of warmth.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Anagrams: PRIGIDITY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "d-g-i-i-i-p-r-t-y"
	-1 letter: rigidity.
	-4 letters: digit, dirty, dript, gript, gripy, ridgy, rigid.
	-5 letters: dipt, dirt, drip, gird, girt, grid, grip, grit, gyri, irid, pity, prig, tidy, tipi, trig, trip, yird.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.

Alternative Orthography: PRIGIDITY

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

50 52 49 47 49 44 49 54 59

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

⁼

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)

01010000 01010010 01001001 01000111 01001001 01000100 01001001 01010100 01011001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#82 &#73 &#71 &#73 &#68 &#73 &#84 &#89

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 0052 0049 0047 0049 0044 0049 0054 0059

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

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

505243414338435459

INDEX

1. Definition
2. Anagrams
3. Orthography
4. Bibliography

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