Bellarmine

Definitions: Bellarmine

Bellarmine

Noun

1. Italian cardinal and theologian (1542-1621).

2. A stoneware drinking jug with a long neck; decorated with a caricature of Cardinal Bellarmine (17th century).

Date "Bellarmine" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1651. (references)

Specialty Definitions: Bellarmine

Domain	Definitions
Literature	Bellarmine (A ). A large Flemish gotch, i.e. a corpulent beer-jug of some strong ware, originally made in Flanders in ridicule of Cardinal Bellarmine, the great persecutor of the reformed party there. These jugs had at the neck a rude likeness of the cardinal with his large, square, ecclesiastical beard. "... like a larger jug, that some men call A bellarmine ... Whereon the lewder hand of pagan workmen, Over the proud ambitious head, hath carved An idol large, with beard episcopal, Making the vessel look like tyrant Eglon." Cartright: The Ordinary. "One of the Fellows of Exeter [College], when Dr. Prideaux was rector, sent his servitor, after nine o'clock at night, with a large bottle to fetch some ale from the alehouse. When he was coming home with it under his gown the proctor met him, and asked him what he did out so late, and what he had under his gown? The man answered that his master had sent him to the stationers to borrow Bellarmine, which book he had under his arm; and so he went home. Whence a bottle with a big belly is called a Bellarmine to this day, 1667."- Oxoniana, vol. i. p. 232. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
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Synonyms: Bellarmine

Synonyms: graybeard (n), longbeard (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Bellarmine

English words defined with "Bellarmine": Cardinal Bellarmine ♦ graybeard ♦ longbeard ♦ Roberto Francesco Romolo Bellarmine. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Bellarmine

Domain	Title
Books	Bellarmine and Democracy (reference) Galileo, Bellarmine, and the Bible (reference) Pioneer Missionary to the Bering Strait Eskimos: Bellarmine Lafortune, S.J. (reference) The Bellarmine Jug [LARGE PRINT] (reference) The Political Philosophy of St. Robert Bellarmine (reference) (more book examples)
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Familiar Quotations: Bellarmine

Author	Quotation
St. Robert Bellarmine	The Pope may act outside the law, above the law, and against the law. (Papa potest extra jus, super jus et contra jus.)
	God has implanted a natural tendency to the monarchial form of government not only in the hearts of men but in practically all things.
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Usage Frequency: Bellarmine

"Bellarmine" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 88.89% of the time. "Bellarmine" is used about 18 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (proper)	88.89%	16	87,710
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	5.56%	1	339,140
Lexical Verb (base form)	5.56%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	18	N/A

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Expressions: Bellarmine

Expressions using "Bellarmine": Cardinal Bellarmine ♦ Roberto Francesco Romolo Bellarmine. Additional references.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Bellarmine

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
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bellarmine prep	20
bellarmine high school	18
bellarmine college prep	16
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bellarmine preparatory school	2
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bellarmine prep school	2
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bellarmine high jose san school	2
bellarmine preparatory	2
bellarmine church robert st	2
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Rhyming with "Bellarmine"

Words rhyming with "Bellarmine" (pronounced 'Bel"lar*mine'): Alumine, bromine, Calamine, Cardamine, Carmine, Enlumine, Etamine, Extermine, Foredetermine, Gelsemine, Harmine, hyoscyamine, illumine, Inlumine, Intermine, jasmine, Lumine, Menispermine, Physostigmine, Primine, Reillumine, Relumine, Stenodermine, Sycamine, Termine, undermine. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Bellarmine

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-e-e-i-l-l-m-n-r"
	-2 letters: lienable, lineable, mineable, reliable.
	-3 letters: aliener, balmier, beamier, bellman, bellmen, berline, braille, enabler, labeler, lambier, libeler, liberal, linable, manille, manlier, marline, mealier, minable, mineral, nimbler, ralline, relabel.
	-4 letters: airmen, alible, aliner, almner, ambeer, ambler, bailee, bailer, baleen, baller, barmen, barmie, beanie, belier, bemean, bemire, bename, berime, berlin, biller, bireme, blamer, elmier, enable, enamel.
	Words containing the letters "a-b-e-e-i-l-l-m-n-r"
	+3 letters: bimillenaries, mineralizable, neoliberalism, unreclaimable.
	+4 letters: neoliberalisms.
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