ABDALS

Subject	Topic	Quote
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	INFIDEL, n. In New York, one who does not believe in the Christian religion; in Constantinople, one who does. (See GIAOUR.) A kind of scoundrel imperfectly reverent of, and niggardly contributory to, divines, ecclesiastics, popes, parsons, canons, monks, mollahs, voodoos, presbyters, hierophants, prelates, obeah-men, abbes, nuns, missionaries, exhorters, deacons, friars, hadjis, high-priests, muezzins, brahmins, medicine-men, confessors, eminences, elders, primates, prebendaries, pilgrims, prophets, imaums, beneficiaries, clerks, vicars-choral, archbishops, bishops, abbots, priors, preachers, padres, abbotesses, caloyers, palmers, curates, patriarchs, bonezs, santons, beadsmen, canonesses, residentiaries, diocesans, deans, subdeans, rural deans, abdals, charm-sellers, archdeacons, hierarchs, class-leaders, incumbents, capitulars, sheiks, talapoins, postulants, scribes, gooroos, precentors, beadles, fakeers, sextons, reverences, revivalists, cenobites, perpetual curates, chaplains, mudjoes, readers, novices, vicars, pastors, rabbis, ulemas, lamas, sacristans, vergers, dervises, lectors, church wardens, cardinals, prioresses, suffragans, acolytes, rectors, cures, sophis, mutifs and pumpums.
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Anagrams: ABDALS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-b-d-l-s"
	-1 letter: albas, baals, balas, balds, balsa, basal, salad.
	-2 letters: aals, abas, alas, alba, albs, baal, baas, bads, bald, bals, dabs, dals, labs, lads, slab.
	-3 letters: aal, aas, aba, abs, ads, ala, alb, als, baa, bad, bal, bas, dab, dal, lab, lad, las, sab, sad, sal.
	-4 letters: aa, ab, ad, al, as, ba, la.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-b-d-l-s"
	+1 letter: ballads, lambdas.
	+2 letters: abasedly, badlands, ballades, balsamed, basidial, bradawls, scabland.
	+3 letters: advisable, advisably, backlands, baldheads, baldpates, balladist, ballasted, bastardly, boatloads, djellabas, fahlbands, habdalahs, handballs, hardballs, labdanums, labradors, lambasted, landgrabs, lapboards, larboards, sabadilla, saddlebag, sailboard, sandblast, scablands.
	+4 letters: adjustable, adsorbable, adverbials, ascendable, backlashed, backpedals, baldachins, balderdash, balladeers, balladists, balladries, balustrade, berascaled, blackheads, blacklands, blackleads, boardwalks, broadscale, broadtails, clapboards, djellabahs, flashboard, garibaldis, handlebars, sabadillas, saddlebags, sailboards, sandblasts, spreadable, tablelands, tailboards, twayblades, wallboards.
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Alternative Orthography: ABDALS

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

41 42 44 41 4C 53

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)

01000001 01000010 01000100 01000001 01001100 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#66 &#68 &#65 &#76 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0042 0044 0041 004C 0053

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

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

Domain	Definition
Literature	Abdals Persian fanatics, who think it a merit to kill anyone of a different religion; and if slain in the attempt, are accounted martyrs. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

ABDALS

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Devil's Dictionary