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MANICHEE

Definition: MANICHEE

MANICHEE

Noun

1. A believer in the doctrines of Manes, a Persian of the third century A. D., who taught a dualism in which Light is regarded as the source of Good, and Darkness as the source of Evil.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "MANICHEE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1693. (references)

"MANICHEE" is a common misspelling or typo for: mainsheet, malice, manacle, manatee, Manichean, menace, menarche, munched, panache.

 

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Crosswords: MANICHEE

English words defined with "MANICHEE": Manichaean, Manichean. (references)

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Commercial Usage: MANICHEE

DomainTitle

Books

  • Histoire Critique De Manichee Et Du Manicheisme (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Usage Frequency: MANICHEE

"MANICHEE" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "MANICHEE" is used about 2 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
Noun (singular)100%2245,945

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

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Anagrams: MANICHEE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-h-i-m-n"

-1 letter: machine.

-2 letters: achene, anemic, chaine, cinema, haemic, haemin, iceman, icemen, manche, meanie, menace.

-3 letters: amice, amine, amnic, anime, chain, chime, china, chine, enema, hance, hemic, hemin, hence, mache, manic, miche, minae, mince, niche, niece.

-4 letters: ache, acme, acne, ahem, amen, amie, amin, cain, came, cane, cham, chia, chin, cine, each, eche, emic, haem, haen, hame, heme, inch, mace, mach, main, mane, mean, mica, mice, mien, mina, mine, name, neem, nema, nice.

-5 letters: ace, aim, ain, ami, ane, ani, cam, can, cee, chi, eme, hae, ham, hem, hen, hic, hie, him, hin, ice, ich, mac, mae, man, men, nae, nah, nam, nee, nim.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-e-e-h-i-m-n"
 

+1 letter: mechanize.

 

+2 letters: chimpanzee, manchineel, mechanized, mechanizer, mechanizes.

 

+3 letters: achievement, amenorrheic, archenemies, chameleonic, chimpanzees, enchainment, impeachment, machineable, machinelike, machineries, manchineels, mechanizers, merchandise, merchandize, metanephric.

 

+4 letters: achievements, chastisement, cinematheque, enchainments, exanthematic, gemeinschaft, impeachments, mechanizable, melancholies, merchandised, merchandiser, merchandises, merchandized, merchandizes, mischanneled, unmechanized.

 

+5 letters: acetaminophen, aeromechanics, catecholamine, chameleonlike, chastisements, cinematheques, decamethonium, gemeinschafts, hermeneutical, marchionesses, merchandisers, mesencephalic, metencephalic, mischannelled, neurochemical, unimpeachable.

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

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Alternative Orthography: MANICHEE


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

4D 41 4E 49 43 48 45 45

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 01000001 01001110 01001001 01000011 01001000 01000101 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#77 &#65 &#78 &#73 &#67 &#72 &#69 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004D 0041 004E 0049 0043 0048 0045 0045

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

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

4735484337423939

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Usage Frequency
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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