Definitions for Arcanum

Arcanum ar·ca·num

Spelling: [ahr-key-nuh m]
IPA: /ɑrˈkeɪ nəm/

Arcanum is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 132 anagrams from letters in Arcanum (aacmnru).

Definitions for Arcanum

noun

  1. Often, arcana. a secret; mystery.
  2. a supposed great secret of nature that the alchemists sought to discover.
  3. a secret and powerful remedy.
  4. secret of secrets.

Origin of Arcanum

1590-1600; Latin, neuter (used as noun) of arcānus arcane

Examples for Arcanum

It is accounted a noble Remedy, known to few, and held as a great arcanum.

Trent, watching her, felt that at last he had explored to the inner shrine of that arcanum in her eyes.

The mysteries of religion must be kept in the hands of priests—the secret and arcanum of church government.

I shall prove that Hermippus protracted his life by the use of such an arcanum.

Medicines did not avail, and I had not yet found the arcanum which afterwards so greatly benefitted my suffering soul.

Sir, it is an arcanum, which I have discovered, and prepared with infinite labour.

But they too were to be cured, people need only buy his arcanum.

There was the arcanum; each yellow grain conduced to my exaltation, and the sum of these grains was the sum of my mightiness.

This is the grand “arcanum duplicatum” for “Living all the days of your Life.”

The foreigner has no mystic fabric in his government, and no arcanum imperii.

Word Value for Arcanum
Scrable

11

Words with friends

15

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