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dikast

dikast is the alternative form of dicast.

Meaning of dicast

Noun

dicast (plural dicasts)

  1. (Ancient Greece) A kind of juror.
    • The dicast keeps his eyes level in the face of his gods. The parity of the ballots of the impartial human jury is a twofold symbol[…]1924, Herbert Weir Smyth, “VIII. Orestea. III: Eumenides”, in Aeschylean Tragedy, page 220

Forms of dikast

pluraldikasts

Questions about dikast

What is dikast the alternative form of?
Dikast is the alternative form of dicast.

Words near dikast in the dictionary

  1. dikaryotic
  2. dikaryotisation
  3. dikaryotization
  4. dikaryotizations
  5. dikas
  6. dikast
  7. dikastic
  8. dikastophobia
  9. dikasts
  10. dikdik
  11. dikdiks

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dikast (page history and authors); dicast (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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