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Definition: Saint Patrick |
Saint PatrickNoun1. Apostle and patron saint of Ireland; an English missionary to Ireland in the 5th century. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: Saint PatrickSynonyms: Patrick (n), St Patrick (n). (additional references) |
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Saint Patrick (circa 373 - March 17, 461) is the patron saint of Ireland. He was born around 385 in Caledonia, probably at Kilpatrick. His parents were Calpurnius and Conchessa, who were Romans living in Britain. At the age of about fourteen, Patrick was captured and taken to Ireland as a slave. He escaped at the age of twenty and returned to Britain, reuniting with his parents and later becoming one of the first Christian missionaries to Ireland. He was one of the earliest writers to advocate the abolition of slavery.
Patrick was not the first Christian missionary to Ireland, but he seems to have been the one who made the most impact. Mythology credits him with banishing snakes from the island of Ireland, though others suggest that for climatic reasons Ireland never actually had snakes; one suggestion is that "snakes" referred to the symbolism of the pagan priests of that time and place, possibly shown by their tattoos.
Legend also credits Patrick with teaching the Irish about the concept of the Trinity by showing people the shamrock, a three-leaved clover, using it to highlight the Christian dogma of 'three divine persons in the one god' (as opposed to the Arian heresy that was popular in Patrick's time).
It is unknown on what date he was born and died but it is believed that March 17 was either his birth or death date, and it is the date popularly associated with him as his Feast Day (known as St Patrick's Day).
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Crosswords: Saint Patrick |
| English words defined with "Saint Patrick": Saint Patrick's Day. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Saint Patrick": 63466 ♦ Knights of St. Patrick ♦ PADDY, PATRICK. (references) |
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Clever | All snakes who wish to remain in Ireland will please raise their right hands. (references; author: Saint Patrick) | |
Movie/TV Titles | In the Days of Saint Patrick (1920) | |
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Saint Patrick | All snakes who wish to remain in Ireland will please raise their right hands. |
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1. Saint Patrick, MO |
| 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 |
saint patrick | 90 |
history of saint patrick | 7 |
saint patrick day | 2 |
saint patrick mo | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "Saint Patrick"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Manx | Perick Noo, Noo Perick. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | aintsay atrickpay.(various references) | |
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| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Sanctus Patricius. (various references) |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-i-i-k-n-p-r-s-t-t" | |
-2 letters: antiracist, patricians. | |
-3 letters: antipasti, antistick, cantraips, parasitic, patrician, patristic. | |
-4 letters: actinias, apiarist, artistic, aspirant, cantraip, cantraps, cantrips, captains, castrati, intarsia, katcinas, nitpicks, partisan, partitas, stickpin, tipcarts, titanias, transact, tripacks. | |
-5 letters: acrasin, actinia, airsick, antiair, antiars, anticar, anticks, arnicas, artisan, aspirin, astatic, astrict, attacks, attains, cantrap, cantrip, capstan, captain, captans, carinas, caritas, catkins, catnaps, catnips, citrins, kainits, kantars, karstic, katcina, narcist, nitpick, parians, partans, partita, pastina, patinas, pianist, picaras, pinatas, piranas, piratic, piscina, ransack, rapinis, rattans, satanic, satiric, spartan, spirant, stickit, taipans, tantras, tantric, tarpans, tartans, tipcart, tipcats, titania, titanic, titians, transit, trapans, tripack, tsarina. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 61 69 6E 74 50 61 74 72 69 63 6B |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01100001 01101001 01101110 01110100 00100000 01010000 01100001 01110100 01110010 01101001 01100011 01101011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S a i n t   P a t r i c k |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0061 0069 006E 0074 0050 0061 0074 0072 0069 0063 006B |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5367758086250678684756977 |
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