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ROSICRUCIAN

Definitions: ROSICRUCIAN

ROSICRUCIAN

Adjective

1. Of or pertaining to the Rosicrucians, or their arts.

Noun

1. One who, in the 17th century and the early part of the 18th, claimed to belong to a secret society of philosophers deeply versed in the secrets of nature, -- the alleged society having existed, it was stated, several hundred years.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "ROSICRUCIAN" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1860. (references)


Synonyms within Context: ROSICRUCIAN

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Deceiver

Quack, charlatan, mountebank, saltimbanco, saltimbanque, empiric, quacksalver, medicaster, Rosicrucian, gypsy; man of straw.

Heterodoxy

Brahmin, Brahman; Parsee, Sufi, Buddhist; Magi, Gymnosophist, fire worshiper, Sabian, Gnostic, Rosicrucian;

Sorcerer

Katerfelto, Cagliostro, Mesmer, Rosicrucian; Circe, siren, weird sisters.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: ROSICRUCIAN

English words defined with "ROSICRUCIAN": Rosy cross. (references)
Specialty definitions using "ROSICRUCIAN": Gnomes. (references)

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Commercial Usage: ROSICRUCIAN

DomainTitle

Books

  • Mystic Triangle, 1929: A Modern Magazine of Rosicrucian Philosophy (reference)

  • Rosicrucian Enlightenment (Routledge Classics) (reference)

  • Rosicrucian Principles for the Home and Business (reference)

  • The Secret Doctrine of the Rosicrucians: Illustrated With the Secret Rosicrucian Symbols (reference)

  • True and Invisible Rosicrucian Order (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Usage Frequency: ROSICRUCIAN

"ROSICRUCIAN" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "ROSICRUCIAN" is used about 2 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%2245,945

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: ROSICRUCIAN

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

rosicrucian

128

order rosicrucian

23

egyptian museum rosicrucian

17

fellowship rosicrucian

15

museum rosicrucian

12

amorc order rosicrucian

4

jose museum rosicrucian san

4

amorc rosicrucian

3

history rosicrucian

2

dwight eisenhower rosicrucian

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: ROSICRUCIAN

Language Translations for "ROSICRUCIAN"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Hungarian

  

rózsakeresztes (rosecruciean). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

"薇十字団 (Fellowship of the Rosy Cross). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ばらじゅうじ " (Fellowship of the Rosy Cross). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

osicrucianray

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: ROSICRUCIAN

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-c-i-i-n-o-r-r-s-u"

-3 letters: carrions, crucians, rancours.

-4 letters: acinous, acronic, carious, carrion, cirrous, cocains, concurs, corsair, crucian, curaris, curiosa, currans, incisor, ouraris, rancors, rancour, ricinus, ricracs.

-5 letters: acinic, acinus, acorns, anisic, anuric, ariosi, arsino, cairns, casini, casino, circus, cirrus, cocain, concur, conics, cornua, cornus, corsac, cousin, crisic, crocus, cruors, curari, curios, curran, cursor, iconic, incurs, ionics, ironic.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-c-i-i-n-o-r-r-s-u"
 

+3 letters: recirculations.

 

+5 letters: circularizations, circumnavigators, macroinstruction, neuropsychiatric.

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

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Alternative Orthography: ROSICRUCIAN


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

52 4F 53 49 43 52 55 43 49 41 4E

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)

01010010 01001111 01010011 01001001 01000011 01010010 01010101 01000011 01001001 01000001 01001110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#82 &#79 &#83 &#73 &#67 &#82 &#85 &#67 &#73 &#65 &#78

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0052 004F 0053 0049 0043 0052 0055 0043 0049 0041 004E

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

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

5249534337525537433548

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Usage Frequency
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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