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ANIMALS IN CHRISTIAN ART

Specialty Definition: ANIMALS IN CHRISTIAN ART

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Animals in Christian Art The ant symbolises prudence; the ape, malice, lust, and cunning; the ass, sobriety, or the Jewish nation; the asp, Christ, or Christian faith; the bee, industry; the camel, submission; the cock, vigilance; the dog, fidelity; the fox, fraud and cunning; the hog, impurity; the lamb, innocence; the leopard, sin; the ox, pride; the wolf, cruelty.
Some animals are appropriated to certain saints: as the calf or ox to Luke; the cock to Peter; the eagle to John the Divine; the lion to Mark; the raven to Benedict, etc.
The lamb, the pelican, and the unicorn, are symbols of Christ.
The dragon, serpent, and swine, symbolise Satan and his crew. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Anagrams: ANIMALS IN CHRISTIAN ART

Scrabble® YAWL-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-a-a-c-h-i-i-i-i-l-m-n-n-n-r-r-s-s-t-t"

-5 letters: antichristianism.

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

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Alternative Orthography: ANIMALS IN CHRISTIAN ART


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

41 4E 49 4D 41 4C 53      49 4E      43 48 52 49 53 54 49 41 4E      41 52 54

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

            

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000001 01001110 01001001 01001101 01000001 01001100 01010011 00100000 01001001 01001110 00100000 01000011 01001000 01010010 01001001 01010011 01010100 01001001 01000001 01001110 00100000 01000001 01010010 01010100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#78 &#73 &#77 &#65 &#76 &#83 &#32 &#73 &#78 &#32 &#67 &#72 &#82 &#73 &#83 &#84 &#73 &#65 &#78 &#32 &#65 &#82 &#84

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 004E 0049 004D 0041 004C 0053      0049 004E      0043 0048 0052 0049 0053 0054 0049 0041 004E      0041 0052 0054

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

354843473546532434823742524353544335482355254

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