BOMBASTUS

Domain	Definition
Literature	Bombastus The family name of Aureolus Paracelsus (1493-1541). He is said to have kept a small devil prisoner in the pommel of his sword. "Bombastus kept a devil's bird Shut in the pommel of his sword, That taught him all the cunning pranks Of past and future mountebanks." S. Butler: Hudibras, part ii. 3. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
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Modern Usage: BOMBASTUS

Expression: BOMBASTUS

Anagrams: BOMBASTUS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-b-m-o-s-s-t-u"
	-1 letter: bombasts, bumboats, subatoms.
	-2 letters: bombast, bumboat, subatom.
	-3 letters: abbots, boasts, sabots, sambos, stomas.
	-4 letters: abbot, about, abuts, ambos, atoms, autos, babus, basso, basts, boast, boats, bombs, botas, bouts, busts, masts, mauts, moats, mosts, musts, oasts, ousts, sabot, sambo, smuts, somas, stabs, stoas, stobs, stoma, stubs, stums, subas, sumos, tabus, tombs, tsuba, tubas, umbos.
	-5 letters: abos.
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Alternative Orthography: BOMBASTUS

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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)

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Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	Oh Bombastus Bombastus (1929)
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Specialty Definition: BOMBASTUS

Expression using "BOMBASTUS": theophrastus Philippus Aureolus Bombastus von Hohenheim. Additional references.
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