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AZRAEL

"AZRAEL" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "God's help".

Date "AZRAEL" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1835. (references)

"AZRAEL" is a common misspelling or typo for: Area, Ariel, Astral, Aural, Azalea, Israel, Israeli.


Specialty Definition: AZRAEL

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Literature

Azrael (3 syl.) The angel that watches over the dying, and takes the soul from the body. The angel of death. He will be the last to die, but will do so at the second trump of the archangel.
"The Mohammedan doctors say that Azrael was commissioned to inflict the penalty of death on all mankind." - H. Christmas.
The wings of Azrael. The approach of death; the signs of death coming on the dying.
"Those who listen in the ... watches of the night for the wings of Azrael." - Besamt. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: AZRAEL

Specialty definitions using "AZRAEL": Abou Jahia, Alicon, AsraelWings of Azrael. (references)

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Use in Literature: AZRAEL

TitleAuthorQuote

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

Azrael, the Mahometan angel of the sepulchre, would have turned back, thinking he had mistaken the door.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Anagrams: AZRAEL

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-e-l-r-z"

-1 letter: areal, lazar.

-2 letters: alae, alar, area, earl, laze, lear, rale, raze, real, zeal.

-3 letters: aal, ala, ale, are, ear, era, lar, lea, lez.

-4 letters: aa, ae, al, ar, el, er, la, re.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-e-l-r-z"
 

+1 letter: lazaret.

 

+2 letters: analyzer, grazable, lazarets, paralyze, zarzuela.

 

+3 letters: analyzers, carbazole, catalyzer, grazeable, lazarette, lazaretto, paralyzed, paralyzer, paralyzes, reanalyze, zarzuelas.

 

+4 letters: caramelize, carbazoles, catalyzers, galvanizer, lateralize, lazarettes, lazarettos, mozzarella, naturalize, paralyzers, plagiarize, radicalize, realizable, reanalyzed, reanalyzes, recanalize, tantalizer.

 

+5 letters: adrenalized, amortizable, caramelized, caramelizes, desacralize, familiarize, galvanizers, hydralazine, lateralized, lateralizes, marginalize, materialize, mozzarellas, naturalized, naturalizes, organizable, overanalyze, parfocalize, plagiarized, plagiarizer, plagiarizes, polarizable, radicalized, radicalizes, rationalize, realization, reanalyzing, recanalized, recanalizes, satirizable, tantalizers, trailblazer, trapezoidal, vaporizable.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: AZRAEL


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

41 5A 52 41 45 4C

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 01011010 01010010 01000001 01000101 01001100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#90 &#82 &#65 &#69 &#76

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 005A 0052 0041 0045 004C

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

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

356052353946

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Quotations: Fiction
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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