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CISTERCIANS

"CISTERCIANS" is a plural of: cistercian.

Date "CISTERCIANS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1862. (references)


Specialty Definition: CISTERCIANS

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Literature

Cistercians A religious order, so called from the monastery of Cistercium, near Dijon, in France. The abbey of Cistercium or Citeaux was founded by Robert, abbot of Molême, in Burgundy, at the close of the eleventh century. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Commercial Usage: CISTERCIANS

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Books

  • Cistercians and Cluniacs: St Bernard's Apologia to Abbot William (reference)

  • The Cistercians in the Early Middle Ages: Written to Commemorate the Nine Hundredth Anniversary of Foundation of the Order at Citeaux in 1098 Under t (reference)

  • The Cistercians (Religious Order Series, Vol 4) (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Use in Literature: CISTERCIANS

TitleAuthorQuote

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

This order, as we see, is not to be confounded with the Benedictines called Cistercians.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: CISTERCIANS

"CISTERCIANS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "CISTERCIANS" is used about 28 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
Noun (plural)100%2865,706

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: CISTERCIANS

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

the cistercians

20
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Misspellings: CISTERCIANS

Misspellings

"CISTERCIANS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Cisteachan. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: CISTERCIANS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

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

-1 letter: scarcities.

-2 letters: canisters, circinate, scenarist.

-3 letters: acentric, airiness, arcsines, arsenics, artiness, ascetics, canister, canities, ceratins, cineasts, cisterna, cisterns, citrines, creatins, crinites, eristics, icterics, inciters, inertias, insister, isatines, narcissi, narcists, raciness, rainiest, retsinas, sanities, sanitise, satirise, scantier, scanties, scarcest, scariest, sciatics, sericins, sinister, stainers, stearins, tacrines, teniasis.

-4 letters: accents, acetins, actinic, actress, airiest, ancress, anestri.

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

+1 letter: criticalness.

 

+3 letters: bronchiectasis, criticalnesses, pantisocracies, saccharinities.

 

+4 letters: eclaircissement, interscholastic, sacrosanctities.

 

+5 letters: anticlericalisms, anticlericalists, circumstantiates, eclaircissements, psychometricians, reclassification, vasoconstrictive.

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

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Alternative Orthography: CISTERCIANS


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

43 49 53 54 45 52 43 49 41 4E 53

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 01001001 01010011 01010100 01000101 01010010 01000011 01001001 01000001 01001110 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#73 &#83 &#84 &#69 &#82 &#67 &#73 &#65 &#78 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 0049 0053 0054 0045 0052 0043 0049 0041 004E 0053

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

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

3743535439523743354853

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Quotations: Fiction
4. Usage Frequency
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Derivations
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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