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CATHARIST

Definition: CATHARIST

CATHARIST

Noun

1. One aiming at or pretending to a greater purity of like than others about him; -- applied to persons of various sects. See Albigenses.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Catharist \Cath"a*rist\, noun. [from Late Latin expression catharista, from the Greek expression clean, pure.]. (Websters 1913)


Rhyming with "CATHARIST"

Words rhyming with "CATHARIST" (pronounced 'Cath"a*rist'): Adiaphorist, Allegorist, Amorist, Antichrist, Aorist, Aphorist, Apiarist, Arist, Augurist, Aurist, Belle-lettrist, Caricaturist, Categorist, Chiaroscurist, Chorist, Christ, Contrist, Decembrist, Diarist, Equilibrist, Eucharist, florist, Frist, Gemarist, Glossarist, grist, Herbarist, Herborist, Hexametrist, jurist, Luxurist, Mediocrist, Memorist, Metrist, militarist, Mistrist, Optometrist, Patrist, Petaurist, Piarist, Plagiarist, Probabiliorist, Querist, Questrist, Rist, Sacrist, Sanhedrist, Sanitarist, Sectarist, Semaphorist. (additional references)

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Anagrams: CATHARIST

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

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

-1 letter: archaist, castrati, chartist, citharas.

-2 letters: astatic, astrict, athirst, caritas, cattish, cithara, rattish, tachist, tartish.

-3 letters: airths, arhats, arista, artist, attach, attars, attics, carats, casita, chairs, charas, charts, crista, rachis, racist, riatas, starch, static, stitch, strait, strata, strath, strati, strict, tarsia, tatars, thirst, tiaras, tracts, traits, triacs.

-4 letters: acari, airth, airts, aitch, arhat, arias, astir.

-5 letters: aahs.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-c-h-i-r-s-t-t"
 

+1 letter: cathartics.

 

+2 letters: anthracites, parachutist, theatricals.

 

+3 letters: catachrestic, catastrophic, parachutists.

 

+4 letters: catastrophism, catastrophist, matriarchates, microhabitats, parasynthetic, patriarchates, straightlaced, stratigraphic, theatricalism, transthoracic, trisoctahedra.

 

+5 letters: antiarthritics, antihistorical, antimonarchist, antirheumatics, arithmeticians, authenticators, catachrestical, catastrophisms, catastrophists, characteristic, straightjacket, theatricalisms, theatricalizes.

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

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Alternative Orthography: CATHARIST


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

43 41 54 48 41 52 49 53 54

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 01000001 01010100 01001000 01000001 01010010 01001001 01010011 01010100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#65 &#84 &#72 &#65 &#82 &#73 &#83 &#84

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 0041 0054 0048 0041 0052 0049 0053 0054

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

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

373554423552435354

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Rhymes
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography
5. Bibliography


  

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