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Carmelite

Definitions: Carmelite

Carmelite

Adjective

1. Of or relating to the Carmelite friars; "Carmelite monasteries".

Noun

1. A Catholic friar wearing the white cloak of the Carmelite order.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "Carmelite" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1781. (references)

Specialty Definitions: Carmelite

DomainDefinitions

Satire

CARMELITE, n. A mendicant friar of the order of Mount Carmel. As Death was a-rising out one day, Across Mount Camel he took his way, Where he met a mendicant monk, Some three or four quarters drunk, With a holy leer and a pious grin, Ragged and fat and as saucy as sin, Who held out his hands and cried: "Give, give in Charity's name, I pray. Give in the name of the Church. O give, Give that her holy sons may live!" And Death replied, Smiling long and wide: "I'll give, holy father, I'll give thee -- a ride." With a rattle and bang Of his bones, he sprang From his famous Pale Horse, with his spear; By the neck and the foot Seized the fellow, and put Him astride with his face to the rear. The Monarch laughed loud with a sound that fell Like clods on the coffin's sounding shell: "Ho, ho! A beggar on horseback, they say, Will ride to the devil!" -- and thump Fell the flat of his dart on the rump Of the charger, which galloped away. Faster and faster and faster it flew, Till the rocks and the flocks and the trees that grew By the road were dim and blended and blue To the wild, wild eyes Of the rider -- in size Resembling a couple of blackberry pies. Death laughed again, as a tomb might laugh At a burial service spoiled, And the mourners' intentions foiled By the body erecting Its head and objecting To further proceedings in its behalf. Many a year and many a day Have passed since these events away. The monk has long been a dusty corse, And Death has never recovered his horse. For the friar got hold of its tail, And steered it within the pale Of the monastery gray, Where the beast was stabled and fed With barley and oil and bread Till fatter it grew than the fattest friar, And so in due course was appointed Prior. G.J. Source: Devil's Dictionary.

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Synonym: Carmelite

Synonym: White Friar (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Carmelite

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

Clergy

Cenobite, conventual, abbot, prior, monk, friar, lay brother, beadsman, mendicant, pilgrim, palmer; canon regular, canon secular; Franciscan, Friars minor, Minorites; Observant, Capuchin, Dominican, Carmelite; Augustinian; Gilbertine; Austin Friars, Black Friars, White Friars, Gray Friars, Crossed Friars, Crutched Friars; Bonhomme, Carthusian, Benedictine, Cistercian, Trappist, Cluniac, Premonstatensian, Maturine; Templar, Hospitaler; Bernardine, Lorettine, pillarist, stylite.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Carmelite

English words defined with "Carmelite": White Friar. (references)
Specialty definitions using "Carmelite": CarmeliteHezro. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Carmelite

DomainTitle

Books

  • At the Fountain of Elijah: The Carmelite Tradition (Traditions of Christian Spirituality.) (reference)

  • I Am a Daughter of the Church: A Practical Synthesis of Carmelite Spirituality (reference)

  • The Bread of God, by a Trappist Monk Who Prayed for a Carmelite Hermit Who Wrote (reference)

  • The Carmelite Way: An Ancient Path for Today's Pilgrim (reference)

  • The Springs of Carmel: An Introduction to Carmelite Spirituality (reference)

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Periodicals

  

Music

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Photo Album: Carmelite

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

Carmel Valley and Carmelite monastery as seen from Carmel Bay. Portion of composite image of Point Lobos.Credit: America's Coastlines.

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Use in Literature: Carmelite

TitleAuthorQuote

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Joyce, James

You also told me that when you were a boy in that charming carmelite school you ate pieces of dried cowdung.

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Usage Frequency: Carmelite

"Carmelite" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 89.47% of the time. "Carmelite" is used about 19 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)89.47%1785,106
Noun (proper)5.26%1339,140
Noun (singular)5.26%1339,140
                    Total100.00%19N/A

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

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Expressions: Carmelite

Expressions using "Carmelite": carmelite monk carmelite nun. Additional references.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Carmelite

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

  carmelite nun

41

  carmelite

41

  carmelite discalced nun

11

  carmelite sister

11

  carmelite monastery

10

  carmelite spirituality

7

  carmelite order

6

  crespi carmelite high school

5

  carmelite saint

3

  carmelite order third

3

  carmelite institute study

3

  brother carmelite eucharist holy

3

  carmelite convent

3

  carmelite lay order

3

  carmelite lay

2

  carmelite hermit

2

  carmelite discalced

2

  carmelite coimbra convent

2
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Modern Translations: Carmelite

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

Afrikaan

  

Karmeliet. (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏راهب كرملي. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

кармелит. (various references)

   

Czech

  

karmelité. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

karmelietes. (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

karmelano, karmelanino. (various references)

   

French

  

carmélite. (various references)

   

German

  

karmeliter, karmelit. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

karmelita apácarend. (various references)

   

Italian

  

carmelitano. (various references)

   

Manx

  

Carmelagh. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

armelitecay

   

Portuguese

  

carmelita. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

кармелит. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

pripadnik verskog reda, karmelit. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

carmelita. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

karmelitnunna (carmelite nun), karmelitmunk (carmelite monk). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

кармелітський, кармелітка. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Bible Trace: Carmelite

LanguageDateSource1 Chronicles Chapter 11, Verse 37
Greek (transliterated)250 BCSeptuagintHserai o carmali naarai uioV azwbai
Latin405VulgateAsrai Carmelites Noorai filius Azbi
Jacobean English1611King JamesHezro the Carmelite, Naarai the son of Ezbai,
Victorian English1833WebsterHezro the Carmelite, Naarai the son of Ezbai,
Basic English1964OgdenHezro the Carmelite, Naarai, the son of Ezbai,

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Matched Bible Translations: Carmelite

Language1 Chronicles Chapter 11, Verse 37
CebuanoSi Hesro nga Carmilhanon, si Nahari anak nga lalake ni Esbai,
Chinese迦 密 人 希 斯 羅 、 伊 斯 拜 的 ' 子 拿 萊 、
CroatianHesro Karmelac, Ezbajev sin Naaraj;
DanishHezro fra Karmel; Na'araj, Ezbajs Søn;
DutchHezro, de Karmeliet; Naari, de zoon van Ezbai;
Finnishkarmelilainen Hesro; Naarai, Esbain poika;
FrenchHetsro, de Carmel. Naaraï, fils d`Ezbaï.
GermanHezro, der Karmeliter; Naerai, der Sohn Asbais;
Haitian CreoleEzwo, moun lavil Kamèl, Narayi, pitit gason Esbayi,
Indonesian-Terjemahan Lamadan Hezro, orang Karmeli, dan Naharai bin Ezbai,
ItalianChezro del Carmelo, Naarai figlio di Ezbai,
Korean갈 멜 사 람 헤 스 로 와 에 스 배 의 아 " 나 아 래 와
MaoriKo Hetero Karameri, ko Naarai tama a Etepai;
Norwegiankarmelitten Hesro; Na'arai, sønn av Esbai;
PortugueseHezro, o carmelita; , Naarai, filho de Ebzai;   
RumanianHeyro, din Carmel. Naarai, fiul lui Ezbai.
RussianиЕ"ТПК лБТНЙМЙФСОЙО; оББТБК, УЩО еЪ'БС;
SpanishHezro, de Carmel; Naarai hijo de Ezbai;
SwedishHesro från Karmel; Naarai, Esbais son;

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

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Misspellings: Carmelite

Misspellings

"Carmelite" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: armalyte, Camalata, Camiletti, carmalite, Carmelita, Carmolito, Carwelti. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Carmelite

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-i-l-m-r-t"

-1 letter: materiel, metrical, realtime.

-2 letters: article, atelier, claimer, climate, cremate, emerita, emirate, maltier, marlite, mealier, meatier, metical, miracle, recital, reclaim, reclame, reticle, tiercel, treacle.

-3 letters: amerce, armlet, atelic, calmer, camlet, cartel, ceiler, cerate, cereal, cerite, cermet, citral, claret, create, ecarte, eclair, elater, elmier, emetic, imaret, lacier, mailer, malice, marcel, mealie, melter, metier, metric, milter.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-e-e-i-l-m-r-t"
 

+1 letter: eremitical, hermetical, mercantile.

 

+2 letters: calorimeter, elastomeric, geometrical, incremental, vermiculate.

 

+3 letters: calorimeters, hermetically, meteorically, meteoritical, preeclamptic, vermiculated.

 

+4 letters: calorimetries, cephalometric, ceremonialist, credentialism, geometrically, hermeneutical, hypermetrical, incrementally, interlacement, intermetallic, metacercarial, metamerically, myoelectrical, petrochemical, reacclimatize.

 

+5 letters: cephalometries, ceremonialists, cholestyramine, computerizable, conglomerative, counterclaimed, credentialisms, electrodynamic, exothermically, hypermetabolic, incrementalism, incrementalist, interlacements, intermetallics, intermolecular, laryngectomies, meteorological, multichambered, nongeometrical, overcomplicate, petrochemicals, reacclimatized, reacclimatizes, reminiscential, stereochemical, telemetrically, thermochemical.

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Alternative Orthography: Carmelite


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

43 61 72 6D 65 6C 69 74 65

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)

01000011 01100001 01110010 01101101 01100101 01101100 01101001 01110100 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#97 &#114 &#109 &#101 &#108 &#105 &#116 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 0061 0072 006D 0065 006C 0069 0074 0065

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

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

376784797178758671

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Photo Album
6. Quotations: Fiction
7. Usage Frequency
8. Expressions
9. Expressions: Internet
10. Translations: Modern
11. Bible Trace
12. Derivations
13. Anagrams
14. Orthography
15. Bibliography


  

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