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Meaning of "enchorial" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD ENCHORIAL

Via Late Latin from Greek enkhōrios, from en-² + khōra country.
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PRONUNCIATION OF ENCHORIAL

enchorial  [ɛnˈkɔːrɪəl] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ENCHORIAL

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Enchorial is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES ENCHORIAL MEAN IN ENGLISH?

enchorial

Demotic (Egyptian)

Demotic is the ancient Egyptian script derived from northern forms of hieratic used in the Nile Delta, and the stage of the Egyptian language written in this script, following Late Egyptian and preceding Coptic. The term was first used by the Greek historian Herodotus to distinguish it from hieratic and hieroglyphic scripts. By convention, the word "Demotic" is capitalized in order to distinguish it from demotic Greek.

Definition of enchorial in the English dictionary

The definition of enchorial in the dictionary is of or used in a particular country: used esp of the popular writing of the ancient Egyptians.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH ENCHORIAL


advertorial
ˌædvɜːˈtɔːrɪəl
ambassadorial
æmˌbæsəˈdɔːrɪəl
boreal
ˈbɔːrɪəl
chorial
ˈkɔːrɪəl
combinatorial
ˌkɒmbɪnəˈtɔːrɪəl
directorial
ˌdɪrekˈtɔːrɪəl
editorial
ˌɛdɪˈtɔːrɪəl
equatorial
ˌɛkwəˈtɔːrɪəl
factorial
fækˈtɔːrɪəl
gubernatorial
ˌɡjuːbənəˈtɔːrɪəl
janitorial
ˌdʒænɪˈtɔːrɪəl
loreal
ˈlɔːrɪəl
memorial
mɪˈmɔːrɪəl
pictorial
pɪkˈtɔːrɪəl
sectorial
sɛkˈtɔːrɪəl
senatorial
ˌsɛnəˈtɔːrɪəl
sensorial
senˈsɔːrɪəl
territorial
ˌtɛrɪˈtɔːrɪəl
tutorial
tjuːˈtɔːrɪəl
vectorial
vɛkˈtɔːrɪəl

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ENCHORIAL

enchanter
enchanter´s nightshade
enchanting
enchantingly
enchantment
enchantress
encharge
encharm
enchase
enchaser
encheason
encheer
encheiridion
enchilada
enchiridia
enchiridion
enchondroma
enchondromata
enchondromatous
enchoric

WORDS THAT END LIKE ENCHORIAL

accessorial
amatorial
armorial
authorial
categorial
consistorial
curatorial
Escorial
gladiatorial
immemorial
industrial
manorial
multifactorial
piscatorial
professorial
prosecutorial
responsorial
sartorial
time immemorial
tonsorial
war memorial

Synonyms and antonyms of enchorial in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «enchorial» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ENCHORIAL

Find out the translation of enchorial to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of enchorial from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «enchorial» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

enchorial
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

enchorial
570 millions of speakers

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enchorial
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

enchorial
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

enchorial
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

enchorial
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

enchorial
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

enchorial
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

enchorial
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Enchorial
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

enchorial
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

enchorial
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

enchorial
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Enchorial
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

enchorial
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

enchorial
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

एन्कोरियल
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

enchorial
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

enchorial
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

enchorial
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

enchorial
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

enchorial
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

enchorial
15 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Afrikaans

enchorial
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

enchorial
10 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Norwegian

enchorial
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of enchorial

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ENCHORIAL»

The term «enchorial» is barely ever used and occupies the 198.819 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ENCHORIAL» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «enchorial» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «enchorial» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about enchorial

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ENCHORIAL»

Discover the use of enchorial in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to enchorial and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Early History of Egypt, from the Old Testament, ...
On the Enchorial Language. The Rosetta Stone contains, beside the hieroglyphic and Greek inscriptions, a third, in a language which is called in the Greek the enchorial writing, ypa/jL/j.ara ectopia. It is, I believe, chiefly to Dr. Young that we ...
Samuel Sharpe, 1836
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Encyclopædia Britannica: or, A dictionary of arts and ...
The second inscription, which it will be safest to distinguish by the Greek name enchorial, signifying merely the characters " of the country," notwithstanding its deficiencies near the beginning, is still sufficiently perfect to allow us to compare its ...
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1824
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Supplement to the Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Editions
The second inscription, which it will be safest to distinguish by the Greek name enchorial, signifying merely the characters " of the country," notwithstanding its deficiencies near the beginning, is still sufficiently perfect to allow us to compare its ...
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Encyclopaedia Britannica: Supplement to the 4th, 5th, and ...
The second inscription, which it will be safest to distinguish by the Greek name enchorial, signifying merely the characters " of the country," notwithstanding its deficiencies near the beginning, is still sufficiently perfect to allow us to compare its ...
5
A Biblical and theological dictionary
The enchorial, or demotic alphabet, which they used, has been laid aside since the second or third century of our era. From that time to this, that is, for nearly sixteen hundred years, the Coptic alphabet has been used ; and yet in this Coptic  ...
Richard Watson, 1832
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The Egyptian Antiquities in the British Museum: Monuments, ...
identified, although it occurs much more frequently in the enchorial inscription than in the Greek, which often substitutes for it country only, or omits it entirely. Having thus obtained a sufficient number of common points of subdivision, we may ...
George Long, 1846
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The Westminster Review
And here it may be stated, that several 'of the enchorial signs of numbers have been collected from the Rosetta Inscription, and also from the exordia of those enchorial papyri in which a registry in Greek happens to be adscribed to the ...
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The Encyclopaedia Britannica, Or Dictionary of Arts, ...
3 In this passage Dr Young calls hieratic characters enchorial, and linear hieroglyphic, hieratic. These mistakes were natural in the early stages of the inquiry. The manuscripts, accompanied by tablets or scenes, which he mentions, are copies ...
‎1856
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The Encyclopaedia Britannica: Or, Dictionary of Arts, ...
P.) 9 This conjecture is perfectly just, the enchorial inscription giving in its last line the word SUTEN “ king,” instead of the PTURE3 In this passage Dr Young calls hieratic characters enchorial, and linear hieroglyphic, hieratic. In the early stages  ...
Thomas Stewart Traill, 1856
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The Wesleyan Methodist Magazine
It was then observed, that the next remarkable collection of characters was repeated twenty-nine or thirty times in the enchorial inscription ; and nothing found to occur so often in the Greek, except the word kitig, which, with its compounds, ...

NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ENCHORIAL»

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Myths of Eden and Gauguin's Metamorphoses
Their relationship is nothing less than a distillation in parvum of the ambivalences and doubts enchorial to the fantasy of a prelapsarian ... «Brooklyn Rail, Apr 14»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Enchorial [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/enchorial>. Apr 2024 ».
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