Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A student or lover of archery; one who practises archery, or who studies history and archæology of archery.
- Same as toxophilitic.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A lover of archery; one devoted to archery.
Etymologies
- From Toxophilus, the title of a 1535 book by Roger Ascham intended to mean ‘lover of the bow’, from Ancient Greek τοξον (toxon, "bow") + φίλος (philos, "love") + -ite. (Wiktionary)
Examples
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McCain Says Bailout Bill He Voted For Is "Putting Us On The Brink Of Economic Disaster"
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘toxophilite’.
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phrontistery-t
from phrontistery.info
tyromancy, tyroma, tyroid, tyriasis, tyrannicide, typtology, typothetae, typomania, typography, typographia, typhonic, typhomania and 930 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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Logodaedalus' Lexical Locutionary
Discombobulating the illiterate since the middle of the last century.
adiaphora, agitprop, alliteration, apophthegm, autarky, bête noire, bezoar, biorhythm, braggadocio, canaille, confabulate, confrère and 332 more...
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A Parthian Shot: Archery Words
Just what it says. Archery rocks.
bow, arrow, longbow, crossbow, barebow, recurve, compound bow, flight, arrowhead, nock, feather, yew and 197 more...
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...another list...
I've no idea where I got this page full of words, but whatever it is, I want to find it again. May have duplicate words from other lists.
bicameral, aphelion, dirigible, parhelion, flocculus, vernier, corticate, oxalis, pandanus, calabash, plumbago, jonquil and 217 more...
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Random
These are just some random words that I might find a list for someday.
troglodytism, chinkle, vasculum, sabz, cucullus, tricornigerous, cuboctahedron, eruca, gamp, pilum, taha, angelhood and 244 more...
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Vanity Fair
sunshiny, equipage, wherry, affidavit, gimcracks, nabobs, palanquin, toxophilite, psha, superabundant, pomatums, finikin and 128 more...
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fbharjo's Words
jumelle, kef, kenspeckle, lautitious, essentic, pilpulistic, impavid, cicurant, clou, chrysostomic, miasma, teleology and 1625 more...
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poetic & exotic
gloaming, nacreous, limpid, lambent, limn, elegiac, arenaceous, boreal, harlequin, sphinx, alfresco, coruscate and 109 more...
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recent discoveries
weird, wonderful new additions to my lexicon.
hyperopia, cunctator, pilosity, bescumber, virago, gimcrack, roborant, besprinkle, crack spread, gewgaw, flagitious, ancillary and 37 more...
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Some Words
jabot, knell, volant, crasis, confute, toxophilite, bursar, glyptic, indifferentism, spang, carrel, liberticide and 65 more...
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Words for a Rainy Day
A passionate collection of phrases
mercurial, barathrum, patency, doctrinaire, blatherskite, pother, crepuscular, prescind, estivation, anomie, avolition, cathexis and 20 more...
Tweets
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