ROSICRUCIANS

  

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ROSICRUCIANS

Date "ROSICRUCIANS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1690. (references)


Specialty Definition: ROSICRUCIANS

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Literature

Rosicrucians Not rosa crux, rose cross, but ros crux, dew cross. Dew was considered by the ancient chemists as the most powerful solvent of gold: and cross in alchemy is the synonym of light, because any figure of a cross contains the three letters L V X (light). "Lux" is the menstruum of the red dragon (i.e. corporeal light), and this gross light properly digested produces gold, and dew is the digester. Hence the Rosicrucians are those who used dew for digesting lux or light, with the object of finding the philosopher's stone.
"As for the Rosycross philosophers,
Whom you will have to be but sorcerers,
What they pretend to is no more
Than Trismegistus did before,
Pythagoras, old Zoroaster,
And Apollonius their master."
Butler: Hudibras, pt. ii. 3. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Crosswords: ROSICRUCIANS

English words defined with "ROSICRUCIANS": IlluminatiRosicrucian. (references)
Specialty definitions using "ROSICRUCIANS": ApolloniusInvisiblesVere Adeptus. (references)

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Commercial Usage: ROSICRUCIANS

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Books

  • The Burial of Francis Bacon and His Mother in the Lichfield Chapter House: An Open Communication to the Dean and Chapter of Lichfield Concerning the Rosicrucians (reference)

  • Phallicism: Celestial & Terrestrial; Heathen & Christian & Its Connection With the Rosicrucians & the Gnostics & Its Foundation in Buddhism (reference)

  • The Rosicrucians & Magister Christoph Schlegel: Hermetic Roots of America (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Non-Fiction Usage: ROSICRUCIANS

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Civil Liberties

Indonesia

The Government permits the practice of the mystical, traditional beliefs of "Aliran Kepercayaan." Some religious minorities, including the Baha'i and Rosicrucians, were given the freedom to organize in May 2000. The MPR adopted a Human Rights Charter that provides citizens the freedom to practice their religion without specifying any particular religion. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: ROSICRUCIANS

"ROSICRUCIANS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "ROSICRUCIANS" is used about 6 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
Noun (plural)100%6143,867

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: ROSICRUCIANS

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

rosicrucians

91

celebrity rosicrucians who

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

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Anagrams: ROSICRUCIANS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

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

-4 letters: carrions, corsairs, crucians, incisors, narcissi, narcosis, rancours, scarious.

-5 letters: acinous, acronic, assuror, caisson, carious, carrion, casinos, cassino, cirrous, cocains, concurs, concuss, corsacs, corsair, cousins, crucian, cuirass, curaris, curiosa, currans, cursors, incisor, incross, ouraris, raisins, rancors, rancour, ricinus, ricracs, sanious, sarcous, souaris, soucars, suasion, succors, uncross.

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

+5 letters: macroinstructions.

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

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Alternative Orthography: ROSICRUCIANS


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

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

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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 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

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

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

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

524953433752553743354853

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Quotations: Non-fiction
5. Usage Frequency
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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